National Flags
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
This problem shows that the external angles of an irregular hexagon add to a circle.
Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.
Can you sketch triangles that fit in the cells in this grid? Which ones are impossible? How do you know?
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a parallelogram.
What shape is the overlap when you slide one of these shapes half way across another? Can you picture it in your head? Use the interactivity to check your visualisation.
A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.
Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a rhombus.
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.