How many different shapes with an area of 2 square units can you make by joining dots on this grid with straight lines?
Which of the two shapes has the largest area? You will be surprised!
Find the loci of the goat's position as it eats the grass while tethered to the rope.
On a full page in the back of your exercise book draw a perfectly regular hexagon.
How many rectangles can you find in this pattern? Can you come up with a systematic method for counting them all?
Work out how many squares are there altogether in the given pattern then tackle the chess board.
How many squares can be found by joining four dots on the grid?
How many Triangles can you find in the diagram?
How many triangles are hidden in the pattern? What strategy might you use to count them all to ensure you don't miss any out?
Find a systematic way of counting the number of triangles in the given diagram.
Memorise a picture made up of geometrical shapes
The missing square puzzle is an optical illusion used to help students reason about geometrical figures.
Find the dimensions of a rectangle given the perimeter and area.
If two squares overlap, what shapes can the overlapping region make?
On a full page in the back of your exercise book draw a perfectly regular pentagon.
Solve the riddle to find the name of the polygon then sum the interior angles.
A "My first is in..." type riddle leading to a polygon interior angle calculation.
A 'My first is in...' riddle that describes a geometrical shape. Can you construct it?
Calculate the areas of all the possible quadrilaterals that can be constructed by joining together dots on this grid.
Can you draw 4 straight lines, without taking your pencil off the paper, which pass through all 9 roses?
Find a trapezium, a triangle and a quadrilateral where all of the angles are square numbers.
Write down the names of all the mathematical shapes you know.
Separate three rows of three animals using three squares.
Using six pencils can you make two equal sized squares?
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