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More Activities Using Pegboards

These activities all make use of geoboards or pegboards.  They supplement the tasks in our Geoboards feature.

Tri.'s

Age 7 to 11
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How many triangles can you make on the 3 by 3 pegboard?

Making Squares

Age 7 to 11
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Investigate all the different squares you can make on this 5 by 5 grid by making your starting side go from the bottom left hand point. Can you find out the areas of all these squares?

Quadrilaterals

Age 7 to 11
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How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?

Triangles All Around

Age 7 to 11
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Can you find all the different triangles on these peg boards, and find their angles?

Triangle Pin-down

Age 7 to 11
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Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.

More Transformations on a Pegboard

Age 7 to 11
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Use the interactivity to find all the different right-angled triangles you can make by just moving one corner of the starting triangle.

Peg Rotation

Age 7 to 11
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Can you work out what kind of rotation produced this pattern of pegs in our pegboard?

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The NRICH Project aims to enrich the mathematical experiences of all learners. To support this aim, members of the NRICH team work in a wide range of capacities, including providing professional development for teachers wishing to embed rich mathematical tasks into everyday classroom practice.

NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.

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