Visualising and representing

  • At right angles
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    At right angles

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Can you decide whether two lines are perpendicular or not? Can you do this without drawing them?
  • Immersion
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    Immersion

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Various solids are lowered into a beaker of water. How does the water level rise in each case?

  • Maths filler
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    Maths filler

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Imagine different shaped vessels being filled. Can you work out what the graphs of the water level should look like?

  • Cuboid challenge
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    Cuboid challenge

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What's the largest volume of box you can make from a square of paper?

  • A question of scale
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    A question of scale

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    Use your skill and knowledge to place various scientific lengths in order of size. Can you judge the length of objects with sizes ranging from 1 Angstrom to 1 million km with no wrong attempts?
  • Searching for mean(ing)
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    Searching for mean(ing)

    Age
    11 to 16
    Challenge level
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    If you have a large supply of 3kg and 8kg weights, how many of each would you need for the average (mean) of the weights to be 6kg?
  • Partly Circles
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    Partly circles

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    What is the same and what is different about these circle questions? What connections can you make?

  • Air Nets
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    Air nets

    Age
    7 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Can you visualise whether these nets fold up into 3D shapes? Watch the videos each time to see if you were correct.
  • Magic Vs
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    Magic Vs

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Can you put the numbers 1-5 in the V shape so that both 'arms' have the same total?

  • Semaphore
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    Semaphore

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    I am standing behind five pupils who are signalling a five-digit number to someone on the opposite side of the playground. What number is actually being signalled?