2 Rings

The red ring is inside the blue ring in this picture. Can you rearrange the rings in different ways? Perhaps you can overlap them or put one outside another?
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Problem



Two very special circles are on the floor:

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2 Rings


Very special because they can get bigger or smaller - as you like.

So you might like them to be like this:

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Maybe you like things small - so you would have:

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I'd like the blue one to grow:

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Whoa! That looks different.

The Red is inside the Blue.

So the Red and the Blue can grow - just as you like.

We've seen the Red INSIDE the Blue.

Can we change things so that we might use other words like:

TOUCHING?


OVERLAPPING?


OUTSIDE?


Have a go. Send us some pictures of what you do - we'd love to see them.

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