2D shapes and their properties

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Take an equilateral triangle and cut it into smaller pieces. What can you do with them?

Identical squares of side one unit contain some circles shaded blue. In which of the four examples is the shaded area greatest?

Can you find the squares hidden on these coordinate grids?