This problem was well answered - thank you to all who sent us solutions. Most of you explained that you worked out the size of each piece of wallpaper by counting the number of stars and spots. Jamie from Great Sankey High School decided to show this in a table. He said:

First, I found out how many stars and circles there were in each irregular shape. I then wrote it in a graph (I think Jamie means a table here) to show my results clearly. I then added up each of the totals to make a grand total of shapes for each irregular shape. Finally, I ranked them smallest first to end up with a solution.

Shape	Stars	Circles	Total	Place
A	13	12	25	5
B	10	9	19	4
C	18	17	35	6
D	19	19	38	7
E	4	5	9	1
F	9	7	17	2
G	9	9	18	3

(In fact, Jamie ordered them from largest to smallest in his solution, but I've changed them intosmallest to largest in the table so that it matches the question.) So, Jamie concluded, that from smallest to largest the shapes were: E, F, G, B, A, C, D.

Rowena from Christ Church Infants also recorded her results in a table - a good idea. Some of you didn't agree exactly with Jamie's final order, but it depended on how you counted the stars and spots. Jack from Hitchin Boys' School said:

It wasn't always easy to decide when a shape was half and when it was less or more than half was it?