2D shapes and their properties

Shapes are added to other shapes. Can you see what is happening? What is the rule?

Can you design your own version of the Olympic rings, using interlocking squares instead of circles?

Can you each work out what shape you have part of on your card? What will the rest of it look like?

This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.

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.

These rectangles have been torn. How many squares did each one have inside it before it was ripped?

This problem explores the shapes and symmetries in some national flags.

Use the information on these cards to draw the shape that is being described.

A task which depends on members of the group noticing the needs of others and responding.

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.