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Shape Your Thinking

Shape your Thinking

These activities will encourage you to think flexibly about shape, position and movement (geometry).

'Thinking flexibly' could mean, for example, that you try another way when you get stuck. Perhaps you realise that a task can have more than one solution. Perhaps you check a solution using a different method; or perhaps you think flexibly to create a new problem like one you have just tried.

Repeating Patterns
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level

Try continuing these patterns made from triangles. Can you create your own repeating pattern?

Board Block
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level

Take it in turns to make a triangle on the pegboard. Can you block your opponent?

Paper Partners
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level

Can you describe a piece of paper clearly enough for your partner to know which piece it is?

Shadow Play
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level

Here are shadows of some 3D shapes. What shapes could have made them?

Tangram Tangle
Age 5 to 7
Challenge Level

If you split the square into these two pieces, it is possible to fit the pieces together again to make a new shape. How many new shapes can you make?

Jig Shapes
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level

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

Tangrams
Age 5 to 11
Challenge Level

Can you make five differently sized squares from the interactive tangram pieces?

Tangram Browser
Age 7 to 11

Explore our selection of interactive tangrams. Can you use the tangram pieces to re-create each picture?

Shape Draw
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

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

Always, Sometimes or Never? Shape
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

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

Guess What?
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

Can you find out which 3D shape your partner has chosen before they work out your shape?

Square Tangram
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

This was a problem for our birthday website. Can you use four of these pieces to form a square? How about making a square with all five pieces?

Stringy Quads
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level

This practical problem challenges you to make quadrilaterals with a loop of string. You'll need some friends to help!

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