Visualising and representing

There are 544 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Visualising and representing
Building Tetrahedra
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Building Tetrahedra

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you make a tetrahedron whose faces all have the same perimeter?
Just Opposite
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Just Opposite

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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A and C are the opposite vertices of a square ABCD, and have coordinates (a,b) and (c,d), respectively. What are the coordinates of the vertices B and D? What is the area of the square?
Coke machine
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Coke machine

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The coke machine in college takes 50 pence pieces. It also takes a certain foreign coin of traditional design...
Just rolling round
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Just rolling round

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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P is a point on the circumference of a circle radius r which rolls, without slipping, inside a circle of radius 2r. What is the locus of P?
Circles ad infinitum
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Circles ad infinitum

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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A circle is inscribed in an equilateral triangle. Smaller circles touch it and the sides of the triangle, the process continuing indefinitely. What is the sum of the areas of all the circles?
All in the Mind
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All in the Mind

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex and allowing it to hang freely. What shape does the surface of the water make around the cube?
Cubes Cut into Four Pieces
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Cubes Cut into Four Pieces

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Eight children each had a cube made from modelling clay. They cut them into four pieces which were all exactly the same shape and size. Whose pieces are the same? Can you decide who made each set?
Happy Halving
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Happy Halving

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you split each of the shapes below in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?
Catrina's Cards
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Catrina's Cards

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How would you find out how many football cards Catrina has collected?
Part the Polygons
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Part the Polygons

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Draw three straight lines to separate these shapes into four groups - each group must contain one of each shape.