Angles - points, lines and parallel lines

  • Orbiting Billiard Balls
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    Orbiting billiard balls

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What angle is needed for a ball to do a circuit of the billiard table and then pass through its original position?
  • Three Tears
    problem

    Three tears

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Construct this design using only compasses
  • Dotty Relationship
    problem

    Dotty relationship

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Can you draw perpendicular lines without using a protractor? Investigate how this is possible.
  • Pegboard Quads
    problem

    Pegboard quads

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Make different quadrilaterals on a nine-point pegboard, and work out their angles. What do you notice?
  • problem

    Right angles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?

  • Subtended angles
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    Subtended angles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    What is the relationship between the angle at the centre and the angles at the circumference, for angles which stand on the same arc? Can you prove it?

  • Triangles in circles
    problem

    Triangles in circles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Can you find triangles on a 9-point circle? Can you work out their angles?

  • Angular Reflection
    problem

    Angular reflection

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 28 - 2013
    Two lines meet at a point. Another line through this point is reflected in both of these lines. What is the angle between the image lines?
  • Sweeping Hands
    problem

    Sweeping hands

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Use your knowledge of angles to work out how many degrees the hour and minute hands of a clock travel through in different amounts of time.
  • Right Angle Challenge
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    Right angle challenge

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    How many right angles can you make using two sticks?