Area Two

A Maths Starter of The Day

How many different shapes with an area of 2 square units can you make by joining dots on this grid with straight lines?

 

Teacher: Click on the dots above to show joining lines.

A printable sheet for student use is available here

 

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  • *Carol, Sheffield PArk Academy
  • Sunday, September 10, 2006
  • "3 NQTs in the department, I'm new subject leader in this new academy - Starters R Great!! Lovely resource for stimulating learning and getting eveyone off to a good start. Thank you!!"
  • Mark, New Zealand
  • Monday, January 14, 2008
  • "I used this for a struggling class of 13 year olds and it worked really well. From simple triangles of area 2 we used it to show that obtuse triangles can be made too: the grid makes working out areas so easy.

    Next time I will give them a sheet to record their findings though."
  • Matt, Seb and David, Chatham Grammar School for Boys
  • Thursday, September 11, 2008
  • "We reckon there are at least 25!"
  • Miss Reakes, West Island School, HK
  • Friday, September 12, 2008
  • "This is a great starter for a mixed ability class due to it's open ended posibilities. The brighter ones using fractions other than a half didn't want to stop! I gave dotted paper to the weaker ones to start them off immediately."
  • C J Southward, Limehouse School Cumbria
  • Thursday, September 10, 2009
  • "My year 9s scored way over 45 including trapeziums and long triangles."
  • William Hulme Grammar Academy, Year 8 Set 1
  • Thursday, September 24, 2009
  • "We got 18 different shapes but when you rotate and manipulate these base shapes we had over 50. But we only 10 minutes on it as a starter."

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