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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 […]
Describe and explain this pattern.
What do you think the patterns for other multiples look like, for example multiples of 2 or 3 or 4 or 5?
Download this sheet and shade in the patterns of the multiples.
Why do you think that in each pattern […]
Xoli decorated a strip of 20 squares.
She painted a red dot on the corner on every second square
Then she put a blue cross on every third square.
Then she put a green triangle on every fourth square.
And she put a black square on every fifth square
So there was nothing […]
Cogwheels are very important for gears in machinery such as clocks, bicycles, cars and engines.
Pick two cogwheels. Place them close to each other so that the teeth fit into the gaps between the teeth of the […]
Kimie and Mdu made sticks from strips of card. Kimie made blue sticks 2 squares long and Mdu made red sticks 3 squares long.
Kimie put her blue sticks end to end in a long line. Mdu put his red sticks end to end in a line underneath Kimie’s.
Can they make […]
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