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What Shapes Game
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to play games to identify, recall and match the names of different 2D shapes by their individual properties including their number of sides and corners.
The class can select and link the written names of a range of different shapes to match to their correct illustrations on the game board to try and win.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to play games to identify, recall and match the names of different 2D shapes by their individual properties including their number of sides and corners
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to play paired games to identify and recall the names of different 2D shapes using their matching words and illustrations to indicate their correct properties including their number of sides and corners.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to recall the names of different 2D shapes by their individual properties by playing games.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to learn the names of different 2D shapes using the correct vocabulary to identify and describe their matching individual properties. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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