Visualising and representing

  • Child's Play
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    Child's play

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    A toy has a regular tetrahedron, a cube and a base with triangular and square hollows. If you fit a shape into the correct hollow a bell rings. How many times does the bell ring in a complete game?
  • Getting an angle
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    Getting an angle

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    How can you make an angle of 60 degrees by folding a sheet of paper twice?
  • Concrete calculation
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    Concrete calculation

    Age
    14 to 16
    Challenge level
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    The builders have dug a hole in the ground to be filled with concrete for the foundations of our garage. How many cubic metres of ready-mix concrete should the builders order to fill this hole to make the concrete raft for the foundations?
  • Cogs
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    Cogs

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    A and B are two interlocking cogwheels having p teeth and q teeth respectively. One tooth on B is painted red. Find the values of p and q for which the red tooth on B contacts every gap on the cogwheel A as the wheels rotate.
  • Blue and White
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    Blue and white

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?

  • Framed
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    Framed

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Seven small rectangular pictures have one inch wide frames. The frames are removed and the pictures are fitted together like a jigsaw to make a rectangle of length 12 inches. Find the dimensions of the pictures.
  • Tetra Square
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    Tetra square

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    ABCD is a regular tetrahedron and the points P, Q, R and S are the midpoints of the edges AB, BD, CD and CA. Prove that PQRS is a square.
  • Dodecamagic
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    Dodecamagic

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
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    Here you see the front and back views of a dodecahedron. Each vertex has been numbered so that the numbers around each pentagonal face add up to 65. Can you find all the missing numbers?
  • Iff
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    Iff

    Age
    14 to 18
    Challenge level
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    Take a triangular number, multiply it by 8 and add 1. What is special about your answer? Can you prove it?

  • Take Ten
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    Take ten

    Age
    11 to 14
    Challenge level
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    Is it possible to remove ten unit cubes from a 3 by 3 by 3 cube so that the surface area of the remaining solid is the same as the surface area of the original?