This week Ms. Grayston has been teaching us about 2D shapes in Math’s. We looked at how shapes can be broken apart and made with other shapes.
To begin with we discussed what a trapezium, hexagon and rhombus are:
Hexagon
6 sided polygon
trapezium
where the opposite sides are parallel.
Rhombus
a four-sided shape where all sides have equal length
Next we worked in pairs and we were given a small bag of shapes. Our task was to answer the following questions:
Shape Activities
- How many ways can you make a hexagon?
- Can you find 2 different ways to make a triangle with 4 pieces?
- Make a rhombus, using at least one hexagon
- How many triangles did it take to make a larger triangle?
- How many trapeziums did it take to make a larger trapezium?
Extra Activities:
- You cannot make a larger hexagon using only hexagons. Can you explain why?
- Is it possible to make a rhombus using only two shapes?
It was really great to see how each pair worked together and challenged themselves with finding as many possible answers to each question. Below are some of the shapes that we made when answering the questions.
Some of us discovered that we could not make a hexagon by using only hexagons. The reason for this was because each time we would try to add another hexagon to make the shape it would increase the number of sides so it was always impossible to create. We noticed that as we added more hexagons it actually looked like a honeycomb which is a tessellation of hexagons.
Honeycomb has hexagons too!
Everyone enjoyed participating in this activity and reflecting on each answer.
Which question did you find the most challenging and why?
What did you enjoy most about this activity and why?
Can you design a problem solving question about making shapes that people could try and solve? What would it be?
Dear Mrs Baldwin,
What I thought was the most challenging
task in that activity was the 3rd question,
“make a rhombus using at least 1 hexagon”.
What I enjoyed most about this activity
was making the shapes using other shapes
and also working with a partner.
From Anah
Dear Mrs Baldwin,
I thought the most challenging thing about the lesson was making the shapes especially the giant rhombus because I could never quite get it right.
I enjoyed finishing the activity because it was really hard and I didn’t really like it.
From Gracie
I do not go to your school mbut we do it at belrose.Chloe
Dear Mrs Baldwin, I really enjoyed the shape making because it was a really good work out for my brain and like Anah said it was quite difficult to make a rhombus using a hexagon. I also liked that Mrs Grayston did that lesson and it was really fun.
FROM FATE.
Dear mrs baldwin
I loved making shapes because
We maded shapes like rhombus
Ect
Adam
The question that I found most difficult was number 3 making a rhombus using at least one hexagon because it was hard.
The second extra activities 2
From charlie s
Dear Mrs B,
The hardest question would be to make my own shape and give it to someone else to solve
because making and tracing the puzzle were very hard to do in one lesson and also solve another persons puzzle.
I enjoyed making the shapes the most because you could create a lot of things.
FROM Asha
Dear Mrs Baldwin,
The question I found the hardest was the third make a rombus using one hexagon
It was hard. I enjoyed the first question make as many hexagons as you can!
From Ella
Dear Mrs Baldwin,
the question I found most challenging was the 3rd Question because you had to include at least one hexagon.But I found it fun and challenging.
The thing I most enjoyed was working with your table as a team and that we got to make the shapes.
From Anika
Dear mrs Baldwin,
I enjoy doing 2D shapes and love doing shapes.