Triangles and Petals
An equilateral triangle rotates around regular polygons and produces an outline like a flower. What are the perimeters of the different flowers?
An equilateral triangle rotates around regular polygons and produces an outline like a flower. What are the perimeters of the different flowers?
The area of a square inscribed in a circle with a unit radius is 2. What is the area of these other regular polygons inscribed in a circle with a unit radius?
The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect square - can you explain why?
Imagine a large cube made from small red cubes being dropped into a pot of yellow paint. How many of the small cubes will have yellow paint on their faces?
A spider is sitting in the middle of one of the smallest walls in a room and a fly is resting beside the window. What is the shortest distance the spider would have to crawl to catch the fly?
Pick a square within a multiplication square and add the numbers on each diagonal. What do you notice?
Can you work out the fraction of the original triangle that is covered by the inner triangle?
Can you find the area of a parallelogram defined by two vectors?
The diagonals of a trapezium divide it into four parts. Can you create a trapezium where three of those parts are equal in area?
Position the lines so that they are perpendicular to each other. What can you say about the equations of perpendicular lines?