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Miss Mason's Shape Challenge

How many of my challenges can you complete?

You may need to follow the HELP onto the Internet to get your answers.

Complete as many as you can then save the page under your name.

CHALLENGE 1

MY ANSWER

What is a 2D shape?

CHALLENGE 2

What is a 3D shape?

CHALLENGE 3

Complete the table about 2D shapes

SQUARE

Number of sides Number of angles Examples of Shape

OCTAGON

RECTANGLE

PARALLELOGRAM

TRIANGLE

HEXAGON

CIRCLE

DECAGON

CHALLENGE 4

Complete the table about 3D shapes

MY ANSWER

Shape

Number of faces Number of edges Number of vertices Examples of Shape

Cube

Triangular Pyramid

Sphere

Cylinder

Cuboid

Triangular Prism

Square-based Pyramid

Cone

Hexagonal Prism

MOVE THE SHAPES

Move the shapes
to the right place

PENTAGON

Move the shapes
to the right place

See if you can name these 3D shapes

Use these words

Cuboid

Cylinder

Prism

Cube

Pyramid

LOOKING MORE CLOSELY AT 2D SHAPE

CHALLENGE 5

Some shapes have reflective symmetry

A square has 4 lines of symmetry

Play some symmetry games by going onto the symmetrical shapes below

Now you know all about reflective symmetry see if you can put the lines of symmetry on these shapes.

CHALLENGE 6 TESSELLATION

Shapes tessellate if they fit together without leaving any spaces

Like these:

A square

A rectangle

Play the games from these two shapes

Now see if you can show three more shapes that tessellate

MY TESSELLATING SHAPES

AND TWO SHAPES THAT WILL NOT TESSELLATE

CHALLENGE 7 TANGRAMS

Each of these buttons leads to a TANGRAM puzzle.

Try making some different shapes using all the pieces.

Tell or show me three interesting things about tangrams

DID YOU KNOW ?

That if you use all the pieces of the tangram and each piece is joined to another piece by at least one side the area of the shapes / pictures is always the same.

CHALLENGE 8

Triangles

Name these triangles

Words to help

right-angled

isosceles

scalene

equilateral

Is it possible to have a triangle with two right angles?

Have a go in here

SOMETHING EXTRA

ANGLES

Learn more by clicking on these angles and playing the games

Match the label to the angle

acute

obtuse

right

CHALLENGE 9

or a right angled isoceles triangle?

QUADRILATERALS

A QUADRILATERAL HAS FOUR SIDES

HELP

These quadrilaterals are all mixed up can you match them to their correct name?

SQUARE

RHOMBUS

RECTANGLE

PARALLELOGRAM

KITE

DELTOID

TRAPEZIUM

MORE GAMES TO TEST WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED ABOUT 2D SHAPES

LOOKING MORE CLOSELY AT 3D SHAPE

CHALLENGE 10

Have some fun looking at the games and activities attached to these solid shapes.