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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.
Here is a chance to create some attractive images by rotating shapes through multiples of 90 degrees, or 30 degrees, or 72 degrees or...
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?
How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?
Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.
Take a look at the photos of tiles at a school in Gibraltar. What questions can you ask about them?
Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.
When dice land edge-up, we usually roll again. But what if we didn't...?
Proofs that there are only seven frieze patterns involve complicated group theory. The symmetries of a cylinder provide an easier approach.
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?
Here is a chance to create some Celtic knots and explore the mathematics behind them.
Can all but one square of an 8 by 8 Chessboard be covered by Trominoes?
What is the same and what is different about these tiling patterns and how do they contribute to the floor as a whole?
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'.
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.
Some local pupils lost a geometric opportunity recently as they surveyed the cars in the car park. Did you know that car tyres, and the wheels that they on, are a rich source of geometry?
Scheduling games is a little more challenging than one might desire. Here are some tournament formats that sport schedulers use.
Toni Beardon has chosen this article introducing a rich area for practical exploration and discovery in 3D geometry
Patterns that repeat in a line are strangely interesting. How many types are there and how do you tell one type from another?
A gallery of beautiful photos of cast ironwork friezes in Australia with a mathematical discussion of the classification of frieze patterns.
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?
Each of these solids is made up with 3 squares and a triangle around each vertex. Each has a total of 18 square faces and 8 faces that are equilateral triangles. How many faces, edges and vertices does each solid have?
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.