Angles - points, lines and parallel lines

  • Octa-flower
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    Octa-Flower

    Age
    16 to 18
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    Join some regular octahedra, face touching face and one vertex of each meeting at a point. How many octahedra can you fit around this point?
  • Turning
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    Turning

    Age
    5 to 7
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    Use your mouse to move the red and green parts of this disc. Can you make images which show the turnings described?

  • How Safe Are You?
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    How Safe Are You?

    Age
    7 to 11
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    How much do you have to turn these dials by in order to unlock the safes?

  • Six Places to Visit
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    Six Places to Visit

    Age
    7 to 11
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    Can you describe the journey to each of the six places on these maps? How would you turn at each junction?

  • National Flags
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    National Flags

    Age
    7 to 11
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    This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.

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    Watch the Clock

    Age
    7 to 11
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    During the third hour after midnight the hands on a clock point in the same direction (so one hand is over the top of the other). At what time, to the nearest second, does this happen?

  • Olympic Turns
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    Olympic Turns

    Age
    7 to 11
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    This task looks at the different turns involved in different Olympic sports as a way of exploring the mathematics of turns and angles.

  • Estimating angles
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    Estimating Angles

    Age
    7 to 14
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    How good are you at estimating angles?

  • What shape?
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    What Shape?

    Age
    7 to 14
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    This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.

  • Virtual Geoboard
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    Virtual Geoboard

    Age
    7 to 16

    This virtual geoboard allows you to create shapes by stretching rubber bands between pegs on the board.