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More activities with 2-d shape for younger children, and 3-d shapes for older.
Repeating Patterns
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Repeating Patterns

Age
5 to 7
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Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?
Mrs Trimmer's String
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Mrs Trimmer's String

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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Can you help the children in Mrs Trimmer's class make different shapes out of a loop of string?
Triangle Animals
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Triangle Animals

Age
5 to 7
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How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
Animated Triangles
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Animated Triangles

Age
5 to 7
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Watch this "Notes on a Triangle" film. Can you recreate parts of the film using cut-out triangles?
Triangle Edges
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Triangle Edges

Age
5 to 7
Challenge level
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How many triangles can you make using sticks that are 3cm, 4cm and 5cm long?
Cutting Corners
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Cutting Corners

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Can you make the most extraordinary, the most amazing, the most unusual patterns/designs from these triangles which are made in a special way?
Egyptian Rope
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Egyptian Rope

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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The ancient Egyptians were said to make right-angled triangles using a rope with twelve equal sections divided by knots. What other triangles could you make if you had a rope like this?

Overlapping Again
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Overlapping Again

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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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.
Quadrilaterals
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Quadrilaterals

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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How many DIFFERENT quadrilaterals can be made by joining the dots on the 8-point circle?

Triangle Pin-Down
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Triangle Pin-Down

Age
7 to 11
Challenge level
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Use the interactivity to investigate what kinds of triangles can be drawn on peg boards with different numbers of pegs.
What shape?
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What shape?

Age
7 to 14
Challenge level
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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.
Shaping Up with Tessellations
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Shaping Up with Tessellations

This article describes the scope for practical exploration of tessellations both in and out of the classroom. It seems a golden opportunity to link art with maths, allowing the creative side of your children to take over.