Triangles

  • Counting Triangles
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    Counting Triangles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Triangles are formed by joining the vertices of a skeletal cube. How many different types of triangle are there? How many triangles altogether?
  • Lighting up time
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    Lighting Up Time

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A very mathematical light - what can you see?
  • Kissing Triangles
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    Kissing Triangles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Determine the total shaded area of the 'kissing triangles'.
  • Floored
    problem

    Floored

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    A floor is covered by a tessellation of equilateral triangles, each having three equal arcs inside it. What proportion of the area of the tessellation is shaded?
  • 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.
  • Are you kidding
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    Are You Kidding

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    If the altitude of an isosceles triangle is 8 units and the perimeter of the triangle is 32 units.... What is the area of the triangle?
  • Pareq Calc
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    Pareq Calc

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle with three parallel lines going through the vertices. Calculate the length of the sides of the triangle if the perpendicular distances between the parallel lines are 1 unit and 2 units.
  • Circumnavigation
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    Circumnavigation

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The sides of a triangle are 25, 39 and 40 units of length. Find the diameter of the circumscribed circle.
  • Half a Triangle
    problem

    Half a Triangle

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Construct a line parallel to one side of a triangle so that the triangle is divided into two equal areas.
  • Seven lolly sticks, arranged as a tally.
    problem

    Seven Sticks

    Age
    5 to 7
    Challenge level
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    Explore the triangles that can be made with seven sticks of the same length.