Reflections

  • Symmetriangle
    problem

    Symmetriangle

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 35 - 2012
    How many more triangles need to be shaded to make the pattern have a line of symmetry?
  • Angular Reflection
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    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?
  • Patchwork Quilt
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    Patchwork Quilt

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Squares of the type shown are sewn together to make a quilt. How many different quilts can be made?
  • A Roll Of Patterned Paper
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    A Roll of Patterned Paper

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A design is repeated endlessly along a line - rather like a stream of paper coming off a roll. Make a strip that matches itself after rotation, or after reflection
  • Flagged Up
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    Flagged Up

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 31 - 2008
    The flag is given a half turn anticlockwise about the point O and is then reflected in the dotted line. What is the final position of the flag?
  • Potatoes
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    Potatoes

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Weekly Problem 19 - 2009
    When I looked at the greengrocer's window I saw a sign. When I went in and looked from the other side, what did I see?
  • Rose
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    Rose

    Age
    16 to 18
    Challenge level
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    What groups of transformations map a regular pentagon to itself?
  • Tricircle
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    Tricircle

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The centre of the larger circle is at the midpoint of one side of an equilateral triangle and the circle touches the other two sides of the triangle. A smaller circle touches the larger circle and two sides of the triangle. If the small circle has radius 1 unit find the radius of the larger circle.
  • Snookered
    problem

    Snookered

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    In a snooker game the brown ball was on the lip of the pocket but it could not be hit directly as the black ball was in the way. How could it be potted by playing the white ball off a cushion?
  • Two triangles in a Square
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    Two Triangles in a Square

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Given that ABCD is a square, M is the mid point of AD and CP is perpendicular to MB with P on MB, prove DP = DC.