2D shapes and their properties

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2 Rings

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5 to 7

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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?
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Olympic Rings

Age

5 to 7

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

Age

5 to 7

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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?
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Going Deeper: Achieving Greater Depth With Geometry

This article for Primary teachers outlines how providing opportunities to engage with increasingly complex problems, and to communicate thinking, can help learners 'go deeper' with geometry.
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Four Triangles Puzzle

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5 to 11

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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?
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Jig Shapes

Age

5 to 11

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

Age

5 to 11

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This activity focuses on similarities and differences between shapes.
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Shaping It

Age

5 to 11

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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.
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Seeing Squares

Age

5 to 11

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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.
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Poly Plug Rectangles

Age

5 to 11

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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?