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Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?
This practical activity challenges you to create symmetrical designs by cutting a square into strips.
This task depends on groups working collaboratively, discussing and reasoning to agree a final product.
Can you place the blocks so that you see the reflection in the picture?
Use the clues about the symmetrical properties of these letters to place them on the grid.
This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!
How many symmetric designs can you make on this grid? Can you find them all?
Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.
Explore ways of colouring this set of triangles. Can you make symmetrical patterns?
These images are taken from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Can you work out the basic unit that makes up each pattern? Can you continue the pattern? Can you see any similarities and differences in the designs?
What is the same and what is different about these tiling patterns and how do they contribute to the floor as a whole?
Watch this "Notes on a Triangle" film. Can you recreate parts of the film using cut-out triangles?
This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns with two different types of triangle. You could even try overlapping them.
An article for students and teachers on symmetry and square dancing. What do the symmetries of the square have to do with a dos-e-dos or a swing? Find out more?
Follow these instructions to make a five-pointed snowflake from a square of paper.
Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?
It's hard to make a snowflake with six perfect lines of symmetry, but it's fun to try!
Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?
Find out about Emmy Noether, whose ideas linked physics and algebra, and whom Einstein described as a 'creative mathematical genius'.
Have you ever noticed the patterns in car wheel trims? These questions will make you look at car wheels in a different way!
What mathematical words can be used to describe this floor covering? How many different shapes can you see inside this photograph?
Someone at the top of a hill sends a message in semaphore to a friend in the valley. A person in the valley behind also sees the same message. What is it?
What is the missing symbol? Can you decode this in a similar way?
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 9 one on each square of a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows and columns add up to a prime number. How many different solutions can you find?
Using the 8 dominoes make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.