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Can you see what the rule is for filling numbers in the hexagons? Continue the pattern using the same rule. If you get it right the bottom row will start 1, 9, 36, 84, …
Shade the hexagons where the number inside is odd all in one colour. Using a contrasting colour, […]
A large piece of land, divided into small plots, belongs to 5 different farmers.
Below is a plan of the area as the land is presently divided.
All the plots labelled (a) belong to farmer (a).
All the plots labelled (s) belong to farmer (s) and so on.
Note: The symbols may be slightly different. Use the subtle differences in the images in working out your answer.
Click here to download the BANANAS CLOCK HEXAGON worksheet.
Click here to download the Notes for Teachers.
Click here to download the BANANA CLOCK HEXAGON poster.
This […]
Describe the picture? What do you notice? Talk with your friends about it. What shapes can you see in it?
Describe the different symmetries. Draw the picture yourself. Draw your own designs using this idea. Can you explain how this 2-dimensional picture appears to show a 3-dimensional object?
You could use paperclip […]
The numbers 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17 and 19 are prime numbers. Can you make a total of 60 from four of these numbers?
One of three columns of tally marks on The Ishango Bone gives the answer to this question. Found in the Ishango region of the Democratic Republic of […]
What patterns do you notice in this table?
Continue the patterns to fill the empty squares.
Write a list describing all the patterns that you see.
What do you notice about the numbers on squares of the same colour?
Would the patterns […]
STEP 1
1a) Double click on the picture above to start the movie showing how to draw a circle using the paperclip compass.
1b) Draw 2 circles of the same radius with centres A and B so that each circle goes through the centre of the […]
To make a model showing how cubes are made up of three square based pyramids, you will need a cardboard box, some string, some colouring pens and a knife or scissors to cut the box.
From one corner of a box cut squares all exactly the same size to form 3 faces of a cube, […]
Copy this diagram. Why do the diagonals of a unit cube have lengths √2 and √3?
To draw a cube first draw a square, then draw another square the same size that looks as if it is behind the first square, then join the vertices with four parallel lines.
What are the lengths […]
ONE THREE FIVE SEVEN is a game for 2 players. You should have 16 objects.
Arrange the objects in 4 rows with 7 on the bottom row, then a row of 5, then 3, then 1 at the top.
Players take turns to choose a row and to remove at least one […]
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