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?
  • Threesomes
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    Threesomes

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine an infinitely large sheet of square dotty paper on which you can draw triangles of any size you wish (providing each vertex is on a dot). What areas is it/is it not possible to draw?
  • Dotty triangles
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    Dotty Triangles

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine an infinitely large sheet of square dotty paper on which you can draw triangles of any size you wish (providing each vertex is on a dot). What areas is it/is it not possible to draw?
  • 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
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    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
    problem

    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
    problem

    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?
  • Two triangles in a Square
    problem

    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.
  • Three Way Split
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    Three Way Split

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Take any point P inside an equilateral triangle. Draw PA, PB and PC from P perpendicular to the sides of the triangle where A, B and C are points on the sides. Prove that PA + PB + PC is a constant.