In this feature for Primary teachers, you will find tasks to help learners develop their flexibility in a geometrical context. A flexible approach applies to a range of situations - perhaps being stuck on a problem and being flexible to try an alternative path; perhaps recognising that a task can have more than one solution; perhaps checking a solution using a different approach; or perhaps thinking flexibly to create a new problem related to one you have just tried. We hope you enjoy sharing these tasks with your classes.
![Let's Get Flexible with Geometry](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-14782-icon.jpg?itok=vBuUuJUv)
Let's get flexible with geometry
![Board Block](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-2871-icon.png?itok=OKO9Dp3b)
Board block
![Repeating Patterns](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-5944-icon.png?itok=7ybL8Ve9)
Repeating patterns
![Jig Shapes](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-6886-icon.png?itok=-FmHN95F)
Jig shapes
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
![Paper Partners](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-12234-icon.jpg?itok=1NPyJ2RQ)
Paper partners
Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?
![Tangrams](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-03-01-cupboardlove1-icon.gif?itok=Nf7lr8AB)
![Shadow Play](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-2350-icon.png?itok=TqK2-Ob9)
![Square split into a triangle and trapezium](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2024-08/Tangram%20Tangle%20featured%20image.png?itok=5kf3WByb)
Tangram tangle
If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?
![Tangram Browser](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-14735-icon.png?itok=kWMfFFEm)
Tangram browser
![Shape Draw](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-10368-icon.jpg?itok=O7ATWUBX)
![Always, Sometimes or Never? Shape](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-12673-icon.png?itok=HQQCVqVU)
Always, sometimes or never? Shape
Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?
![Guess What?](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-14777-icon.jpg?itok=SY5FR3XA)
Guess what?
![Stringy Quads](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-2913-icon.png?itok=Qui2Dqz_)
Stringy quads
This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!
![Square tangram](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-5528-icon.png?itok=sCbdhwDQ)
Square tangram
![Geometry](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/thumbnails/content-id-12636-icon.png?itok=WEBy-qv1)