From All Corners
Straight lines are drawn from each corner of a square to the mid points of the opposite sides. Express the area of the octagon that is formed at the centre as a fraction of the area of the square.
Straight lines are drawn from each corner of a square to the mid points of the opposite sides. Express the area of the octagon that is formed at the centre as a fraction of the area of the square.
Here is a machine with four coloured lights. Can you develop a strategy to work out the rules controlling each light?
Place a red counter in the top left corner of a 4×4 array, which is covered by 14 other smaller counters, leaving a gap in the bottom right hand corner (HOME). What is the smallest number of moves it will take to move the red counter to HOME?
Is it possible to have a tetrahedron whose six edges have lengths 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 units?
This problem shows that the external angles of an irregular hexagon add to a circle.
In this article, Rachel Melrose describes what happens when she mixed mathematics with art.