Enlargements and scale factors

  • Hex
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    Hex

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Explain how the thirteen pieces making up the regular hexagon shown in the diagram can be re-assembled to form three smaller regular hexagons congruent to each other.
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    Poly Plug Pattern

    Age
    5 to 7
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    Create a pattern on the small grid. How could you extend your pattern on the larger grid?

  • Growing Rectangles
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    Growing Rectangles

    Age
    11 to 14
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    What happens to the area and volume of 2D and 3D shapes when you enlarge them?

  • Transformation Game
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    Transformation Game

    Age
    11 to 14
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    Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?

  • Fill Me Up Too
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    Fill Me Up Too

    Age
    14 to 16
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    In Fill Me Up we invited you to sketch graphs as vessels are filled with water. Can you work out the equations of the graphs?

  • Squirty
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    Squirty

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Using a ruler, pencil and compasses only, it is possible to construct a square inside any triangle so that all four vertices touch the sides of the triangle.

  • Fit for photocopying
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    Fit for Photocopying

    Age
    14 to 16
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    Explore the relationships between different paper sizes.

  • Circles ad infinitum
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    Circles Ad Infinitum

    Age
    16 to 18
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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?

  • Conical Bottle
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    Conical Bottle

    Age
    14 to 16
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    A right circular cone is filled with liquid to a depth of half its vertical height. The cone is inverted. How high up the vertical height of the cone will the liquid rise?