Reflections

  • Building with rods
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    Building With Rods

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    In how many ways can you stack these rods, following the rules?

  • ReflectoR ! RotcelfeR
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    ReflectoR ! RotcelfeR

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Can you place the blocks so that you see the reflection in the picture?

  • Building with longer rods
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    Building With Longer Rods

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A challenging activity focusing on finding all possible ways of stacking rods.
  • So it's times!
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    So It's Times!

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How will you decide which way of flipping over and/or turning the grid will give you the highest total?

  • It's Times Again
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    It's Times Again

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Which way of flipping over and/or turning this grid will give you the highest total? You'll need to imagine where the numbers will go in this tricky task!
  • Reflecting Squarely
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    Reflecting Squarely

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?

  • Shady Symmetry
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    Shady Symmetry

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

  • Decoding Transformations
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    Decoding Transformations

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    See the effects of some combined transformations on a shape. Can you describe what the individual transformations do?

  • Mirror, mirror...
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    Mirror, Mirror...

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Explore the effect of reflecting in two parallel mirror lines.

  • Reflecting Lines
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    Reflecting Lines

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Investigate what happens to the equations of different lines when you reflect them in one of the axes. Try to predict what will happen. Explain your findings.