Vectors and Transformations
Transformation Game
This activity will get you to practise your skills in transforming shapes. You will need a bit of luck and some strategy to get the most points and win the game. Before attempting the game you should...
Vectors and Transformations
Parking Rotations Free
Reverse parking is one of the hardest things you have to do when driving a car. Here’s your chance to hone your skills in this area so that you’ll pass your driving test with flying colours. Enter the...
Vectors and Transformations
Escher Symmetry TN
Observing symmetrical objects comes quite naturally to students because we are surrounded with symmetry. Here’s an activity that takes that skill a giant step further. A great example of how the use...
Vectors and Transformations
Escher Symmetry
You’ve probably seen and admired some of the work of the amazing artist M.C. Escher. Whilst visiting the Alhambra Palace in Grenada, Spain, he became inspired by all the beautiful and ornate tiling patterns...
Vectors and Transformations
Vectors
The following activities are all designed to help teachers engage their students with these key ideas. The activities cater for a range of students and many of them can be used in different ways at different...
Vectors and Transformations
All Activities Free
On the other pages in this section we have divided our activities in to sub-topics. This page has them all together in one place for browsing These problems are brilliant and have been around for ages....
Trigonometry
Trigonometry Function Family Free
The main part of this activity is to produce lovely images like the one on the left. To do that you will need to recognise the patterns behind these graphs. The secret lies in the transformations of...
Trigonometry
Trig Modelling - Sound Free
Do you like music? If you play a musical instrument you’ll know that some combinations of notes sound great, and others sound dreadful. In this investigation you are going to discover that it is mathematics...
Trigonometry
Rocket Trigonometry
These impressive little water powered rockets go high, really high! But what kind of height will yours reach? 20m, 30m, 50m, ... (the world record is over 300m!) There is really only one way to find...
Trigonometry
Sine Rule – Using a Theodolite
If you have ever seen a couple of people working like the two men in the photograph opposite then you have probably wondered what they are doing. One is looking through a sort of telescope on a tripod...