Lesson Five – Triangle Puzzles
This maths teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to select and record some special clues that can be used to identify and illustrate a range of different triangles by their matching names and individual properties.
The class can suggest and model how right angled, isosceles, equilateral and scalene triangles can be the same or different by their matching types of angles.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to select and record some special clues that can be used to identify and illustrate a range of different triangles by their matching names and individual properties
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated cards to select, record and match sets of puzzles clues that can be used to identify and illustrate a range of different triangles by their matching individual properties including the number and types of angles.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to record special clues that can be used to identify and illustrate a range of different triangles.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to investigate, record and compare the matching properties of different types of triangle shapes including their sets of right, acute and obtuse angles. 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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