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Symmetry. Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Dominoes. Addition & subtraction. Integers. Selecting and using information. Multiplication & division. Place value. Mathematical reasoning & proof.There are 40 results
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Eight Dominoes
Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level
Using the 8 dominoes make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8
Symmetry Challenge
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Systematically explore the range of symmetric designs that can be created by shading parts of the motif below. Use normal square lattice paper to record your results.
Trominoes
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Can all but one square of an 8 by 8 Chessboard be covered by Trominoes?
Coordinate Challenge
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Use the clues about the symmetrical properties of these letters to place them on the grid.
Drawing Celtic Knots
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Here is a chance to create some Celtic knots and explore the mathematics behind them.
Building Patterns
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?
Polydron
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.
Pattern Power
Age 5 to 14
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
Shady Symmetry
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?
Prime Magic
Age 7 to 16
Challenge Level
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?
Classifying Solids Using Angle Deficiency
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Toni Beardon has chosen this article introducing a rich area for practical exploration and discovery in 3D geometry
Reflecting Squarely
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?
Always, Sometimes or Never? Shape
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
Troublesome Dice
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
When dice land edge-up, we usually roll again. But what if we didn't...?
Triangle Shapes
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level
This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns with two different types of triangle. You could even try overlapping them.
Topkapi Palace
Age 7 to 14
Challenge Level
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. . . .
Shape Draw
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
Making Maths: Five-point Snowflake
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Follow these instructions to make a five-pointed snowflake from a square of paper.
Making Maths: Snowflakes
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
It's hard to make a snowflake with six perfect lines of symmetry, but it's fun to try!
Making Maths: Indian Window Screen
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?
Reflector ! Rotcelfer
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Can you place the blocks so that you see the reflection in the picture?
Stringy Quads
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!
Symmetrical Semaphore
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
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?
Tiles in a Public Building
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What is the same and what is different about these tiling patterns and how do they contribute to the floor as a whole?
Lafayette
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What mathematical words can be used to describe this floor covering? How many different shapes can you see inside this photograph?
National Flags
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
Hidden Meaning
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
What is the missing symbol? Can you decode this in a similar way?
Rhombicubocts
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
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. . . .
The Frieze Tree
Age 11 to 16
Patterns that repeat in a line are strangely interesting. How many types are there and how do you tell one type from another?
Frieze Patterns in Cast Iron
Age 11 to 16
A gallery of beautiful photos of cast ironwork friezes in Australia with a mathematical discussion of the classification of frieze patterns.
Dancing with Maths
Age 7 to 16
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?
Friezes
Age 11 to 14
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?
Overlap
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
A red square and a blue square overlap so that the corner of the red square rests on the centre of the blue square. Show that, whatever the orientation of the red square, it covers a quarter of the. . . .
Flower Power
Age 11 to 16
Challenge Level
Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.
Tournament Scheduling
Age 11 to 16
Scheduling games is a little more challenging than one might desire. Here are some tournament formats that sport schedulers use.
Paint Rollers for Frieze Patterns.
Age 11 to 16
Proofs that there are only seven frieze patterns involve complicated group theory. The symmetries of a cylinder provide an easier approach.
Attractive Rotations
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Here is a chance to create some attractive images by rotating shapes through multiples of 90 degrees, or 30 degrees, or 72 degrees or...
A Cartesian Puzzle
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level
Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.
Gibraltar Geometry
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level
Take a look at the photos of tiles at a school in Gibraltar. What questions can you ask about them?
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