Shape Activities for Students Aged 7-9

Subject(s): Mathematics | Age: 7-9 | Type: Activity sheet | Publication Year: 2010 to date

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A selection of activities, published by BEAM, for teachers of primary mathematics. They include challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and resources to practise and consolidate students' understanding of shape and space.

The activities, with their mathematical content, are:

• Arranging bricks - investigating number of ways to arrange cuboids

• Carnival mask - drawing a symmetrical face

• Dice - folding nets

• Halves - colouring half of a shape

• Join 4 - drawing shapes on a nine-dot grid

• Shapes crossword - properties of shapes

• Squares - completing squares on agrid

• Squares and triangles - dissecting a shape into a square and two triangles

• Three-square - developing spatial memory

• Two-part tangram - using tangram pieces to produce other shapes

• Word search - finding the names of shapes.

URL: http://stem.org.uk/rx5cq

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