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Identifying 2D shapes including isosceles triangles and heptagons. Also introducing concave and convex shapes and more sorting shapes using Venn and Carroll diagrams.

Sometimes shapes are made up of two or more rectangles. These shapes are known as compound or composite shapes. To find the area of a shape like this you need to divide it into rectangles.

Recognise and identify common 2-D shapes on the surface of 3-D shapes.

Finding fractions of shapes. Makes a change from numbers!

Find simple fractions of shapes and numbers

Here we have some great pages which will help your child to recognise the four basic 2D shapes: circles, squares, rectangles and triangles. You can also have great fun with making pictures of your own just using these shapes. Find plastic shapes or even sticky materials from craft stores which can be used in scrapbooks.

It can be great fun moving shapes around and joining them to make other shapes, so why not try one of the investigations on these 2D shape worksheets.

Finding out what congruent shapes are, how to recognise a scalene triangle and using Venn diagrams and tree diagrams to classify shapes.

Nets of cubes and pyramids and making 3D shapes from cubes. Using a pinboard to make 2D shapes that obey set rules.

More nets of 3D shapes which can be cut out and folded to make the shapes.

Using a calculator to decide the size of fractions and some more converting fractions to decimal fractions.

Shading quarters, thirds or fifths of various shapes.