Work out which aircraft are in danger of colliding from their positions and direction of travel. An exercise in understanding bearings.
Estimate the sizes of each of the angles then add your estimates together.
An exercise in estimating what the sectors of a pie chart represent.
Work out which sectors fit together to make complete circles. Knowledge of the sum of the angles at a point will help find more than one correct solution to this puzzle.
Find a trapezium, a triangle and a quadrilateral where all of the angles are square numbers.
Find all of the angles on the geometrical diagrams.
Understand and use the relationship between parallel lines and alternate and corresponding angles.
Apply the properties of angles at a point, angles on a straight line and vertically opposite angles.
A memory game to be projected to help the whole class revise the circle angle theorems.
Diagrams of the angle theorems with interactive examples.
A self marking exercise involving calculating the unknown angle in a triangle.
Find the unknown angles by using the basic angle theorems.
A pairs game based around ten theorems about the angles made with chords, radii and tangents of circles.
Diagrams of the circle theorems to be projected onto a white board as an effective visual aid.
Show that you understand and can apply the circle theorems with this self marking exercise.
A self-marking exercise on finding the exact values of sine, cosine and tangent of special angles given in radians.
Estimate the size of the given acute angles in degrees.
Create your own dynamic geometrical diagrams using this truly amazing tool from GeoGebra.
Can you make a kite shape from a single A4 size sheet of paper using only three folds?
Measure the size of the given angles to within two degrees of their actual value.
An online version of the Logo programming language with 30 mathematical challenges.
Develop the skills to construct and interpret pie charts in this self-marking set of exercises.
A visual aid designed to help pupils estimate three figure bearings.
A mixture of problems related to calculating the interior and exterior angles of polygons.
Barbara Bug walks around a regular hexagon turning through each of the exterior angles as she goes.
Arrange the stages of the proofs for the standard circle theorems in the correct order.
Measure line segments and angles in geometric figures, including interpreting scale drawings.
An online game for one or two players requiring an ability to estimate angles as bearings.
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