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Investigations. 2D shapes and their properties. Symmetry. Working systematically. Practical Activity. Interactivities. Visualising. Quadrilaterals. Triangles. Squares.There are 47 results
Broad Topics > Angles, Polygons, and Geometrical Proof > 2D shapes and their properties
Shapely Lines
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This challenge invites you to create your own picture using just straight lines. Can you identify shapes with the same number of sides and decorate them in the same way?
Opening Patterns
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Look at some of the patterns in the Olympic Opening ceremonies and see what shapes you can spot.
What's Happening?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Shapes are added to other shapes. Can you see what is happening? What is the rule?
Triangle or No Triangle?
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Here is a selection of different shapes. Can you work out which ones are triangles, and why?
Name That Triangle!
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you sketch triangles that fit in the cells in this grid? Which ones are impossible? How do you know?
Logic Block Collections
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
What do you think is the same about these two Logic Blocks? What others do you think go with them in the set?
Rectangles with Dominoes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you make a rectangle with just 2 dominoes? What about 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...?
Watch Those Wheels
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Have you ever noticed the patterns in car wheel trims? These questions will make you look at car wheels in a different way!
Circle Panes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Look at the mathematics that is all around us - this circular window is a wonderful example.
Jig Shapes
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?
Two by One
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
An activity making various patterns with 2 x 1 rectangular tiles.
Regular Rings 2
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shape is made when you fold using this crease pattern? Can you make a ring design?
Olympic Rings
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This problem is intended to get children to look really hard at something they will see many times in the next few months.
Overlapping Again
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shape is the overlap when you slide one of these shapes half way across another? Can you picture it in your head? Use the interactivity to check your visualisation.
Shaping Up
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Are all the possible combinations of two shapes included in this set of 27 cards? How do you know?
2 Rings
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
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?
Same Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
How can these shapes be cut in half to make two shapes the same shape and size? Can you find more than one way to do it?
Sorting Logic Blocks
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
This interactivity allows you to sort logic blocks by dragging their images.
Count the Trapeziums
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
How many trapeziums, of various sizes, are hidden in this picture?
Curve Spotting
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you spot circles, spirals and other types of curves in these photos?
Where Are They?
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the isometric grid paper to find the different polygons.
Torn Shapes
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?
Sports Equipment
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
If these balls are put on a line with each ball touching the one in front and the one behind, which arrangement makes the shortest line of balls?
Shapely Tiling
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Use the interactivity to make this Islamic star and cross design. Can you produce a tessellation of regular octagons with two different types of triangle?
Shaping It
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
These pictures were made by starting with a square, finding the half-way point on each side and joining those points up. You could investigate your own starting shape.
Mrs Trimmer's String
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Can you help the children in Mrs Trimmer's class make different shapes out of a loop of string?
Chain of Changes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Arrange the shapes in a line so that you change either colour or shape in the next piece along. Can you find several ways to start with a blue triangle and end with a red circle?
Triangular Hexagons
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Investigate these hexagons drawn from different sized equilateral triangles.
Four Triangles Puzzle
Age 5 to 11 Challenge Level:
Cut four triangles from a square as shown in the picture. How many different shapes can you make by fitting the four triangles back together?
Sorting Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
This activity challenges you to make collections of shapes. Can you give your collection a name?
Lafayette
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What mathematical words can be used to describe this floor covering? How many different shapes can you see inside this photograph?
Making Shapes
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Arrange any number of counters from these 18 on the grid to make a rectangle. What numbers of counters make rectangles? How many different rectangles can you make with each number of counters?
Overlapping Circles
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
What shaped overlaps can you make with two circles which are the same size? What shapes are 'left over'? What shapes can you make when the circles are different sizes?
Poly Plug Rectangles
Age 5 to 14 Challenge Level:
The computer has made a rectangle and will tell you the number of spots it uses in total. Can you find out where the rectangle is?
Board Block Challenge
Age 7 to 11 Challenge Level:
Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?
Like a Circle in a Spiral
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
A cheap and simple toy with lots of mathematics. Can you interpret the images that are produced? Can you predict the pattern that will be produced using different wheels?
LOGO Challenge 2 - Diamonds Are Forever
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
The challenge is to produce elegant solutions. Elegance here implies simplicity. The focus is on rhombi, in particular those formed by jointing two equilateral triangles along an edge.
What Shape for Two
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
'What Shape?' activity for adult and child. Can you ask good questions so you can work out which shape your partner has chosen?
First Forward Into Logo 4: Circles
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Learn how to draw circles using Logo. Wait a minute! Are they really circles? If not what are they?
Always, Sometimes or Never? KS1
Age 5 to 7 Challenge Level:
Are these statements relating to calculation and properties of shapes always true, sometimes true or never true?
Playground Snapshot
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
The image in this problem is part of a piece of equipment found in the playground of a school. How would you describe it to someone over the phone?
What's Inside/outside/under the Box?
Age 7 to 14
This article describes investigations that offer opportunities for children to think differently, and pose their own questions, about shapes.
What Shape?
Age 7 to 14 Challenge Level:
This task develops spatial reasoning skills. By framing and asking questions a member of the team has to find out what mathematical object they have chosen.
Circles, Circles Everywhere
Age 7 to 14
This article for pupils gives some examples of how circles have featured in people's lives for centuries.
Pi, a Very Special Number
Age 7 to 14
Read all about the number pi and the mathematicians who have tried to find out its value as accurately as possible.
LOGO Challenge 8 - Rhombi
Age 7 to 16 Challenge Level:
Explore patterns based on a rhombus. How can you enlarge the pattern - or explode it?
From One Shape to Another
Age 7 to 14
Read about David Hilbert who proved that any polygon could be cut up into a certain number of pieces that could be put back together to form any other polygon of equal area.
NRICH is part of the family of activities in the Millennium Mathematics Project.