2D shapes and their properties

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?

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.

Players take it in turns to choose a dot on the grid. The winner is the first to have four dots that can be joined to form a square.

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?

Are these statements always true, sometimes true or never true?

Use the isometric grid paper to find the different polygons.

Where can you put the mirror across the square so that you can still "see" the whole square? How many different positions are possible?

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