Visualising and representing

  • Shear Magic
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    Shear Magic

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    11 to 14
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    Explore the area of families of parallelograms and triangles. Can you find rules to work out the areas?

  • Seven Squares - Group-worthy Task
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    Seven Squares - Group-Worthy Task

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    11 to 14
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    Choose a couple of the sequences. Try to picture how to make the next, and the next, and the next... Can you describe your reasoning?
  • Coordinate Patterns
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    Coordinate Patterns

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    11 to 14
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    Charlie and Alison have been drawing patterns on coordinate grids. Can you picture where the patterns lead?

  • Buses
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    Buses

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    11 to 14
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    A bus route has a total duration of 40 minutes. Every 10 minutes, two buses set out, one from each end. How many buses will one bus meet on its way from one end to the other end?
  • On the Edge
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    On the Edge

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    11 to 14
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    If you move the tiles around, can you make squares with different coloured edges?

  • Stars
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    Stars

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    11 to 14
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    Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?

  • Mixing Paints
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    Mixing Paints

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    11 to 14
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    Can you work out how to produce different shades of pink paint?

  • Speeding up, slowing down
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    Speeding Up, Slowing Down

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    11 to 14
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    Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.

  • Squares in rectangles
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    Squares in Rectangles

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    11 to 14
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    A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What sizes of rectangle contain exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?

  • Route to infinity
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    Route to Infinity

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    11 to 14
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    Can you describe this route to infinity? Where will the arrows take you next?