Visualising and representing

There are 575 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Visualising and representing
Semi-regular Tessellations
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Semi-regular tessellations

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11 to 16
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Semi-regular tessellations combine two or more different regular polygons to fill the plane. Can you find all the semi-regular tessellations?

Triangle Numbers
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Triangle numbers

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11 to 14
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Take a look at the multiplication square. The first eleven triangle numbers have been identified. Can you see a pattern? Does the pattern continue?
swimming pool
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Swimming pool

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5 to 11
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In this problem, we're investigating the number of steps we would climb up or down to get out of or into the swimming pool. How could you number the steps below the water?

Vector walk
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Vector walk

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14 to 18
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Starting with two basic vector steps, which destinations can you reach on a vector walk?
What numbers can we make?
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What numbers can we make?

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11 to 14
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Imagine we have four bags containing a large number of 1s, 4s, 7s and 10s. What numbers can we make?

Marbles in a box
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Marbles in a box

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11 to 16
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How many winning lines can you make in a three-dimensional version of noughts and crosses?
Painted Cube
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Painted cube

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14 to 16
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Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces?
Square It
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Square it

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11 to 16
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Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

Cubes within Cubes revisited
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Cubes within cubes revisited

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11 to 14
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Imagine starting with one yellow cube and covering it all over with a single layer of red cubes, and then covering that cube with a layer of blue cubes. How many red and blue cubes would you need?
Squares in rectangles
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Squares in rectangles

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11 to 14
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A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What size rectangle(s) contain(s) exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?