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Tri-five

Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:

Find all the DIFFERENT shapes that can be made by joining five equilateral triangles edge to edge.

Here's an example:

1 or 2?

You might like to use this interactivity to try out your ideas. Click the red triangle to make a new triangle appear. You can move the triangles around by dragging with your mouse. If you hover your mouse over a corner, you will see a white circle where you can click to rotate the triangle.



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