Investigations

Materials:

  • 2 copies of the shapes below using the printable template (or if you don’t have a printer you can make your own),
  • Pencil, scissors

Can you divide each of these shapes in half so that the two parts are exactly the same?

Four shapes drawn on a dot grid.

Students may want to use a pencil to draw lines on the shapes using one copy of the template.

They could cut the shapes out of the other copy and fold or cut the shapes to check their ideas.

Adapted from nrichmaths.org