2D shapes and their properties

  • National Flags
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    National Flags

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • Round a hexagon
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    Round a Hexagon

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    This problem shows that the external angles of an irregular hexagon add to a circle.

  • Shape Draw
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    Shape Draw

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

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

  • Name That Triangle!
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    Name That Triangle!

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    Can you sketch triangles that fit in the cells in this grid? Which ones are impossible? How do you know?

  • Seeing Parallelograms
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    Seeing Parallelograms

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    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 parallelogram.

  • Overlapping Again
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    Overlapping Again

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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.

  • Quad match
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    Quad Match

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

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

  • Seeing Rhombuses
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    Seeing Rhombuses

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    2 out of 3

    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 rhombus.

  • Board Block Challenge
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    Board Block Challenge

    Age
    7 to 11
    Challenge level
    3 out of 3

    Choose the size of your pegboard and the shapes you can make. Can you work out the strategies needed to block your opponent?

  • What shape?
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    What Shape?

    Age
    7 to 14
    Challenge level
    1 out of 3

    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.