Stars
Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?
Can you work out what step size to take to ensure you visit all the dots on the circle?
Can you make a right-angled triangle on this peg-board by joining up three points round the edge?
A game in which players take it in turns to turn up two cards. If they can draw a triangle which satisfies both properties they win the pair of cards. And a few challenging questions to follow...
Seven balls are shaken. You win if the two blue balls end up touching. What is the probability of winning?
Six balls are shaken. You win if at least one red ball ends in a corner. What is the probability of winning?
Experiment with the interactivity of "rolling" regular polygons, and explore how the different positions of the dot affects its speed at each stage.
A 2 by 3 rectangle contains 8 squares and a 3 by 4 rectangle contains 20 squares. What sizes of rectangle contain exactly 100 squares? Can you find them all?
Using your knowledge of the properties of numbers, can you fill all the squares on the board?
Different combinations of the weights available allow you to make different totals. Which totals can you make?
Powers of numbers behave in surprising ways. Take a look at some of these and try to explain why they are true.