Colouring different shapes

Colouring different shapes

Pencil and paperOnline interactive
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about knowing what shapes look like.

Question Change answer

Here is a picture of a window. Colour in all the different shapes.
  1. Colour the squares red
  2. Colour the rectangles blue
  3. Colour the triangles yellow
  4. Colour the hexagons pink
  5. Colour the pentagons orange
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with coloured pencils and paper or by drawing online.
 
Equipment
Red, blue, yellow, pink, and orange felt pens; coloured pencils or crayons.
Levels:
1, 2
Description of task: 
In this practical task, students use different colours to identify a variety of 2-dimensional shapes in a stained glass window pattern.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
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Answers/responses: 
a) The 2 squares are coloured in red.
b) The 3 rectangles are coloured in blue.
c) The 5 triangles are coloured in yellow.
d) The hexagon is coloured in pink.
e) The 2 pentagons are coloured in orange.
or online:
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