For the summer break – some Maths puzzles and activities!
I have often mentioned OCR’s Maths puzzles; you can see the puzzle collection on BlueSky. Here’s the last puzzle of the academic year – appropriate for the summer!
Nrich has previously posted many Summer Challenges for Primary and Secondary Students.
On Transum Mathematics, you can find many suggestions for holiday activities. The puzzle illustrated is a level 1 puzzle; 12 levels are available.
The holiday collection offers numerous activities to encourage students to continue learning during the holidays. These are categorised, and we have a lovely mixture of learning, puzzles, and games to make students think.
Or perhaps try some curve stitching on Transum.
A reminder that numerous puzzles are available on the Puzzles and Games series of pages:
Index
- Reading
- Collections
- Puzzles
- Logic
- Vocabulary
- Nim
- Counters
- Tables
- Number
- Algebra
- Geometry
- Probability & Statistics
- Underground Maths
Geometry includes a collection of puzzles from Catriona Agg, who has made a collection of screenshots (Google Drive link) freely available.
Given three squares and a rectangle. What’s the shaded area?
In response to this puzzle, Rob Smith created an Autograph file. Rob has set this up to change both squares, and you can also move a point on the smaller square.
Try these brilliant GeoGebra puzzles from Daniel Mentrard, also, his 64 geometric puzzles.
