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Tessellations. Compound transformations. Practical Activity. Translations. Real world. Interactivities. Rotations. Reflections. Visualising. Symmetry.

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### Tiles in a Public Building

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

What is the same and what is different about these tiling patterns and how do they contribute to the floor as a whole?

### Lafayette

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

What mathematical words can be used to describe this floor covering? How many different shapes can you see inside this photograph?

### Hidden Meaning

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

What is the missing symbol? Can you decode this in a similar way?

### Reflector ! Rotcelfer

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Can you place the blocks so that you see the relection in the picture?

### Making Maths: Indian Window Screen

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Can you recreate this Indian screen pattern? Can you make up similar patterns of your own?

### Symmetrical Semaphore

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Someone at the top of a hill sends a message in semaphore to a friend in the valley. A person in the valley behind also sees the same message. What is it?

### National Flags

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.

### A Maze of Directions

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Use the blue spot to help you move the yellow spot from one star to the other. How are the trails of the blue and yellow spots related?

### Rhombicubocts

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Each of these solids is made up with 3 squares and a triangle around each vertex. Each has a total of 18 square faces and 8 faces that are equilateral triangles. How many faces, edges and vertices. . . .

### Turning Tangles

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Look carefully at the video of a tangle and explain what's happening.

### Making Maths: Snowflakes

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

It's hard to make a snowflake with six perfect lines of symmetry, but it's fun to try!

### Frieze Patterns in Cast Iron

##### Stage: 3 and 4

A gallery of beautiful photos of cast ironwork friezes in Australia with a mathematical discussion of the classification of frieze patterns.

### Friezes

##### Stage: 3

Some local pupils lost a geometric opportunity recently as they surveyed the cars in the car park. Did you know that car tyres, and the wheels that they on, are a rich source of geometry?

### Topkapi Palace

##### Stage: 2 and 3 Challenge Level:

These images are taken from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Can you work out the basic unit that makes up each pattern? Can you continue the pattern? Can you see any similarities and. . . .

### A Cartesian Puzzle

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Find the missing coordinates which will form these eight quadrilaterals. These coordinates themselves will then form a shape with rotational and line symmetry.

### Making Maths: Five-point Snowflake

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Follow these instructions to make a five-pointed snowflake from a square of paper.

### Paint Rollers for Frieze Patterns.

##### Stage: 3 and 4

Proofs that there are only seven frieze patterns involve complicated group theory. The symmetries of a cylinder provide an easier approach.

### Sorting Letters

##### Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:

This interactivity allows you to sort letters of the alphabet into two groups according to different properties.

### Building Patterns

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Can you deduce the pattern that has been used to lay out these bottle tops?

### Beat the Drum Beat!

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Use the interactivity to create some steady rhythms. How could you create a rhythm which sounds the same forwards as it does backwards?

### Notes on a Triangle

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Can you describe what happens in this film?

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!

### Triangle Shapes

##### Stage: 1 and 2 Challenge Level:

This practical problem challenges you to create shapes and patterns with two different types of triangle. You could even try overlapping them.

### Tubular Path

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Can you make the green spot travel through the tube by moving the yellow spot? Could you draw a tube that both spots would follow?

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

How many different symmetrical shapes can you make by shading triangles or squares?

### The Frieze Tree

##### Stage: 3 and 4

Patterns that repeat in a line are strangely interesting. How many types are there and how do you tell one type from another?

### Attractive Rotations

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Here is a chance to create some attractive images by rotating shapes through multiples of 90 degrees, or 30 degrees, or 72 degrees or...

### Drawing Celtic Knots

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

Here is a chance to create some Celtic knots and explore the mathematics behind them.

### Troublesome Dice

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

When dice land edge-up, we usually roll again. But what if we didn't...?

### Symmetry Challenge

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Systematically explore the range of symmetric designs that can be created by shading parts of the motif below. Use normal square lattice paper to record your results.

### Coordinate Challenge

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Use the clues about the symmetrical properties of these letters to place them on the grid.

### Overlap

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

A red square and a blue square overlap so that the corner of the red square rests on the centre of the blue square. Show that, whatever the orientation of the red square, it covers a quarter of the. . . .

### Reflecting Squarely

##### Stage: 3 Challenge Level:

In how many ways can you fit all three pieces together to make shapes with line symmetry?

### Pattern Power

##### Stage: 1, 2 and 3

Mathematics is the study of patterns. Studying pattern is an opportunity to observe, hypothesise, experiment, discover and create.

### Shape Draw

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.

### Prime Magic

##### Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Place the numbers 1, 2, 3,..., 9 one on each square of a 3 by 3 grid so that all the rows and columns add up to a prime number. How many different solutions can you find?

### Dancing with Maths

##### Stage: 2, 3 and 4

An article for students and teachers on symmetry and square dancing. What do the symmetries of the square have to do with a dos-e-dos or a swing? Find out more?

### Polydron

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

This activity investigates how you might make squares and pentominoes from Polydron.

### Trominoes

##### Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Can all but one square of an 8 by 8 Chessboard be covered by Trominoes?

### Tournament Scheduling

##### Stage: 3, 4 and 5

Scheduling games is a little more challenging than one might desire. Here are some tournament formats that sport schedulers use.

### Flower Power

##### Stage: 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Create a symmetrical fabric design based on a flower motif - and realise it in Logo.

### Eight Dominoes

##### Stage: 2, 3 and 4 Challenge Level:

Using the 8 dominoes make a square where each of the columns and rows adds up to 8

### Always, Sometimes or Never? Shape

##### Stage: 2 Challenge Level:

Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?

### Classifying Solids Using Angle Deficiency

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Toni Beardon has chosen this article introducing a rich area for practical exploration and discovery in 3D geometry
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