Visualising and representing

  • A green frog.
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    Frogs

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    How many moves does it take to swap over some red and blue frogs? Do you have a method?

  • Reflecting Squarely
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    Reflecting Squarely

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    In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?

  • Shady Symmetry
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    Shady Symmetry

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    11 to 14
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    How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

  • Special Numbers
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    Special Numbers

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    11 to 14
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    My two digit number is special because adding the sum of its digits to the product of its digits gives me my original number. What could my number be?

  • Picturing Triangular Numbers
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    Picturing Triangular Numbers

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    11 to 14
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    What do you notice about the sum of two identical triangular numbers?

  • Picturing Square Numbers
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    Picturing Square Numbers

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    11 to 14
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    Square numbers can be represented as the sum of consecutive odd numbers. What is the sum of 1 + 3 + ..... + 149 + 151 + 153?

  • Isosceles Triangles
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    Isosceles Triangles

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    11 to 14
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    Draw some isosceles triangles with an area of $9cm^2$ and a vertex at (20,20). If all the vertices must have whole number coordinates, how many is it possible to draw?

  • Odds and Evens
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    Odds and Evens

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    11 to 14
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    Are these games fair? How can you tell?

  • How far does it move?
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    How Far Does It Move?

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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 the distance it travels at each stage.

  • Round and round and round
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    Round and Round and Round

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    11 to 14
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    Where will the point stop after it has turned through 30 000 degrees? I took out my calculator and typed 30 000 ÷ 360. How did this help?