New! Ideas
We've gathered together some ideas for using Shape™ in your classroom. Check out the videos below.
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Rotation
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Place a shape on some squared paper and fix one of the vertices in place. Challenge your class to describe what it will look like rotated through 90°, 180° or 270°. Then use Shape™ to check the answers.
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Estimating values
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Overlay shapes on photographs and hide their lengths. Challenge the class to estimate the values using the picture scale, and then reveal the lengths to check the answers.
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Show impossible shapes
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Try challenging your pupils' thinking by showing impossible shapes. Turning off the scale allows you to drop any values onto length and angles.
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Clock faces
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Work out the area of the sector formed by the clock hands, and then challenge your class to work out the area of the whole clock face.
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Angel of the North
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Given the height of the Angel, and the angles from the head and base to the wingtip, calculate the wingspan. It is nearly as big as that of a jumbo jet!
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Clinometer practice
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Use the Tree image to demonstrate how a clinometer and some basic trigonometry can be used to calculate the height of any object. Consider it practice before having your class make their own clinometers and using them around the school.
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The value of Pi
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Create a variety of circles, each with its circumference and diameter displayed. Have the class do the division sum for each circle and see if they spot a pattern.
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Scale factors
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Duplicate a shape and drop new values onto the copy to show how it looks using a variety of enlargement factors. Try hiding values and ask the class to work them out. Show the area of each shape, and challenge your pupils to describe how it changes.
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How much glass?
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Try overlaying a composite shape on one of the arched window images. Challenge the class to split it into its component shapes, and then work out the area of glass used.
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