Area - squares and rectangles

There are 91 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Area - squares and rectangles
Can they be equal?
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Can they be equal?

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11 to 14
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Can you find rectangles where the value of the area is the same as the value of the perimeter?
Changing areas, changing perimeters
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Changing areas, changing perimeters

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11 to 14
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How can you change the area of a shape but keep its perimeter the same? How can you change the perimeter but keep the area the same?
Pebbles
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Pebbles

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7 to 11
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Place four pebbles on the sand in the form of a square. Keep adding as few pebbles as necessary to double the area. How many extra pebbles are added each time?

Semi-detached
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Semi-detached

Age
14 to 16
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A square of area 40 square cms is inscribed in a semicircle. Find the area of the square that could be inscribed in a circle of the same radius.
Torn Shapes
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Torn shapes

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7 to 11
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These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?
Pythagoras for a Tetrahedron
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Pythagoras for a tetrahedron

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16 to 18
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In a right-angled tetrahedron prove that the sum of the squares of the areas of the 3 faces in mutually perpendicular planes equals the square of the area of the sloping face. A generalisation of Pythagoras' Theorem.

Wallpaper
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Wallpaper

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5 to 7
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These pieces of wallpaper need to be ordered from smallest to largest. Can you find a way to do it?

Tilted Squares
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Tilted squares

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11 to 14
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It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

Growing Rectangles
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Growing rectangles

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11 to 14
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What happens to the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes when you enlarge them?
Making Boxes
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Making boxes

Age
7 to 11
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Cut differently-sized square corners from a square piece of paper to make boxes without lids. Do they all have the same volume?