Shaping It

These pictures were made quite simply by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. This creates a smaller shape (which also happens to be a square) inside the original. The half-way points of this new shape are then joined up to make a third shape. This way of making new shapes is continued until it gets too small to do properly. 

You can, of course, start with any straight-lined shape.

Here's one where I've coloured each new halving line to help to see what has happened more clearly.
 

So, it's your turn to have a go.

It's probably good to start with a fairly large shape since it's going to get smaller and smaller each time.
 

• Having made a design like one above, cut out the triangles and the smallest inner shape and rearrange the pieces to form a new shape/design.
• Talk about and record the things you notice as you have drawn more and more halving lines.
• What is happening to the enclosed area each time the sides are halved?  (Try investigating a regular shape first.)