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Arrange the 7 tangram pieces to make the shape in the grey picture.
What do you notice about this shape?
Describe the shapes of the tangram pieces.
What is the same and what is different about the shapes of the tangram pieces?
Make a pattern of your own using all 7 pieces.
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We know birds come from eggs.
You can make many birds from the 9 puzzle pieces of the Magic Tangram Egg.
Break the egg and re-assemble the 9 pieces to hatch one of many varieties of birds.
Construction
Draw a circle with radius […]
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Is it possible to draw a 5-pointed star without taking your pencil off the paper?
When you turn this star around it looks exactly the same in 5 different positions so we say it has ROTATIONAL SYMMETRY of order 5.
Is it possible to draw a 6-pointed star in the same way […]
You are a detective and you have to discover what digits the question marks stand for. They can be any digit from 0 to 9 and they can be the same digit or different digits.
How will you find the missing digits?
What do you notice?
How many solutions are there to the calculations?
What clues […]
How many symmetric patterns can you make by shading whole squares in a 3 by 3 grid?
Where are the mirror lines (lines of symmetry)?
Which of your patterns also have rotational symmetry?
Here is just one pattern. Can you find more than 60 different patterns? Patterns that are […]
(1) You will need a collection of cups, either disposable cups like the ones shown or any mugs and cups you have available. You will also need some water and a measuring jug.
Which cup would you fill with water if you are really thirsty and want a lot to drink?
Arrange […]
1. You have 2 blue shapes, 3 green and 5 brown. Describe their properties.
2. Find the areas in square units of the 3 pieces blue, green and brown.
3. Build one big geometrical shape using all 10 pieces, placing them edge to edge. Draw […]
For your company, you have to design spinning tops made from two pieces glued together, a hemisphere and a cone, and you have to plan how they will be manufactured, packaged and sold.
(1) The radius of the circular surface where the pieces are glued together is 3 cm. The slant […]
Five red-eye frogs and five orange frogs line up in a row with a space between them.
They have to change places but they can only hop, one frog over another frog or slide to an empty space next to them.
Red-eye frogs can […]
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