Visualising and representing

There are 575 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Visualising and representing

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Regular rings 1

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you work out what shape is made by folding in this way? Why not create some patterns using this shape but in different sizes?

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Regular rings 2

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

What shape is made when you fold using this crease pattern? Can you make a ring design?

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This task, written for the National Young Mathematicians' Award 2016, involves open-topped boxes made with interlocking cubes. Explore the number of units of paint that are needed to cover the boxes and the small cubes that would fit inside each one.

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Fraction lengths

Age

7 to 11

Challenge level

Can you find combinations of strips of paper which equal the length of the black strip? If the length of the black is 1, how could you write the sum of the strips?