Can you design your own version of the Olympic rings, using interlocking squares instead of circles?
We have a box of cubes, triangular prisms, cones, cuboids, cylinders and tetrahedrons. Which of the buildings would fall down if we tried to make them?
Jack's mum bought some candles to use on his birthday cakes and when his sister was born, she used them on her cakes too. Can you use the information to find out when Kate was born?
How many different ways can you find to join three equilateral triangles together? Can you convince us that you have found them all?
What does the overlap of these two shapes look like? Try picturing it in your head and then use some cut-out shapes to test your prediction.
Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?
Investigate how the four L-shapes fit together to make an enlarged L-shape. You could explore this idea with other shapes too.
This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.
We can arrange dots in a similar way to the 5 on a dice and they usually sit quite well into a rectangular shape. How many altogether in this 3 by 5? What happens for other sizes?
Why not challenge a friend to play this transformation game?
