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Symmetry. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Regular polygons and circles. Polynomial functions and their roots. Generalising. Creating and manipulating expressions and formulae. Making and proving conjectures. Area - triangles, quadrilaterals, compound shapes. Inequalities. Sine, cosine, tangent.There are 35 results
Broad Topics > Transformations and constructions > Symmetry
Square Pizza
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can you show that you can share a square pizza equally between two people by cutting it four times using vertical, horizontal and diagonal cuts through any point inside the square?
Attractive Tablecloths
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Charlie likes tablecloths that use as many colours as possible, but insists that his tablecloths have some symmetry. Can you work out how many colours he needs for different tablecloth designs?
Encircling
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
An equilateral triangle is sitting on top of a square. What is the radius of the circle that circumscribes this shape?
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. . . .
Holly
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
The ten arcs forming the edges of the "holly leaf" are all arcs of circles of radius 1 cm. Find the length of the perimeter of the holly leaf and the area of its surface.
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
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?
Pattern Power
Age 5 to 14
Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.
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. . . .
Troublesome Dice
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
When dice land edge-up, we usually roll again. But what if we didn't...?
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?
A Problem of Time
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Consider a watch face which has identical hands and identical marks for the hours. It is opposite to a mirror. When is the time as read direct and in the mirror exactly the same between 6 and 7?
Arclets
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Each of the following shapes is made from arcs of a circle of radius r. What is the perimeter of a shape with 3, 4, 5 and n "nodes".
Sliced
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
An irregular tetrahedron has two opposite sides the same length a and the line joining their midpoints is perpendicular to these two edges and is of length b. What is the volume of the tetrahedron?
Trominoes
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Can all but one square of an 8 by 8 Chessboard be covered by Trominoes?
Drawing Celtic Knots
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Here is a chance to create some Celtic knots and explore the mathematics behind them.
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?
Turning Tangles
Age 11 to 14 Challenge Level:
Look carefully at the video of a tangle and explain what's happening.
Symmetric Trace
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Points off a rolling wheel make traces. What makes those traces have symmetry?
Two Triangles in a Square
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
Given that ABCD is a square, M is the mid point of AD and CP is perpendicular to MB with P on MB, prove DP = DC.
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. . . .
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?
One Reflection Implies Another
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
When a strip has vertical symmetry there always seems to be a second place where a mirror line could go. Perhaps you can find a design that has only one mirror line across it. Or, if you thought that. . . .
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?
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
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?
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.
A Roll of Patterned Paper
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
A design is repeated endlessly along a line - rather like a stream of paper coming off a roll. Make a strip that matches itself after rotation, or after reflection
Rotations Are Not Single Round Here
Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:
I noticed this about streamers that have rotation symmetry : if there was one centre of rotation there always seems to be a second centre that also worked. Can you find a design that has only. . . .
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...
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.
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.
Flower Power
Age 11 to 16 Challenge Level:
Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.