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Broad Topics > Angles, Polygons, and Geometrical Proof > Triangles
Overlaps
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use the interactivity to test your prediction.
Paper Patchwork 2
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Have a go at making a few of these shapes from paper in different sizes. What patterns can you create?
Posting Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
If you can post the triangle with either the blue or yellow colour face up, how many ways can it be posted altogether?
Part the Polygons
Age 7 to 11 Short Challenge Level:
Draw three straight lines to separate these shapes into four groups - each group must contain one of each shape.
Folding Flowers 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Make a flower design using the same shape made out of different sizes of paper.
Triangle Island
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
You have pitched your tent (the red triangle) on an island. Can you move it to the position shown by the purple triangle making sure you obey the rules?
Inside Seven Squares
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What is the total area of the four outside triangles which are outlined in red in this arrangement of squares inside each other?
Regular Rings 1
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you work out what shape is made by folding in this way? Why not create some patterns using this shape but in different sizes?
Three Fingers and a Loop of String
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Using a loop of string stretched around three of your fingers, what different triangles can you make? Draw them and sort them into groups.
More Transformations on a Pegboard
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.
Nine-pin Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you make on a circular pegboard that has nine pegs?
Cut and Make
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Cut a square of paper into three pieces as shown. Now,can you use the 3 pieces to make a large triangle, a parallelogram and the square again?
Triangle Edges
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Fraction Fascination
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
This problem challenges you to work out what fraction of the whole area of these pictures is taken up by various shapes.
Rectangle Tangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The large rectangle is divided into a series of smaller quadrilaterals and triangles. Can you untangle what fractional part is represented by each of the shapes?
Data Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Sara and Will were sorting some pictures of shapes on cards. "I'll collect the circles," said Sara. "I'll take the red ones," answered Will. Can you see any cards they would both want?
Matching Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you sort these triangles into three different families and explain how you did it?
Logic Block Collections
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What do you think is the same about these two Logic Blocks? What others do you think go with them in the set?
Triangle Animals
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
Triangle or No Triangle?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Here is a selection of different shapes. Can you work out which ones are triangles, and why?
Animated Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Watch this "Notes on a Triangle" film. Can you recreate parts of the film using cut-out triangles?
Name That Triangle!
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you sketch triangles that fit in the cells in this grid? Which ones are impossible? How do you know?
Cartesian Isometric
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The graph below is an oblique coordinate system based on 60 degree angles. It was drawn on isometric paper. What kinds of triangles do these points form?
Transformations on a Pegboard
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How would you move the bands on the pegboard to alter these shapes?
Making Maths: Test the Strength of a Triangle
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Have you noticed that triangles are used in manmade structures? Perhaps there is a good reason for this? 'Test a Triangle' and see how rigid triangles are.
Putting Two and Two Together
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
In how many ways can you fit two of these yellow triangles together? Can you predict the number of ways two blue triangles can be fitted together?
Cutting it Out
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
I cut this square into two different shapes. What can you say about the relationship between them?
Board Block
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?
Triangle Pin-down
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
Triangles All Around
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?
Board Block for Two
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Board Block game for two. Can you stop your partner from being able to make a shape on the board?
Jig Shapes
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
Sorting Logic Blocks
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This interactivity allows you to sort logic blocks by dragging their images.
Bracelets
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate the different shaped bracelets you could make from 18 different spherical beads. How do they compare if you use 24 beads?
Repeating Patterns
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
Cut it Out
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you dissect an equilateral triangle into 6 smaller ones? What number of smaller equilateral triangles is it NOT possible to dissect a larger equilateral triangle into?
Inside Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How many different triangles can you draw on the dotty grid which each have one dot in the middle?
Uncanny Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you help the children find the two triangles which have the lengths of two sides numerically equal to their areas?
Tri-five
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Find all the different shapes that can be made by joining five equilateral triangles edge to edge.
Seven Sticks
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Explore the triangles that can be made with seven sticks of the same length.
Let's Investigate Triangles
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Vincent and Tara are making triangles with the class construction set. They have a pile of strips of different lengths. How many different triangles can they make?
Tessellating Triangles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you make these equilateral triangles fit together to cover the paper without any gaps between them? Can you tessellate isosceles triangles?
Tessellating Transformations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you find out how the 6-triangle shape is transformed in these tessellations? Will the tessellations go on for ever? Why or why not?
Triangle Relations
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What do these two triangles have in common? How are they related?
Peg and Pin Boards
Age 5 to 11
This article for teachers suggests activities based on pegboards, from pattern generation to finding all possible triangles, for example.
Egyptian Rope
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.