Shapes sites compiled by sue lemmer

Sorted roughly from easier to more difficult concepts

Sort the Shapes A simple sorting game for Early Years	Lil Fingers Storybook read this simple book about shapes and colours	IC Shapes Click on a shape to see real life examples
Pattern Board Use the interactive pattern board shapes to make your own designs and patterns	Sticky Shapes Click on the shapes then drag to make the picture.	Carmine's Line and Shape An art site that has a great introduction to line and shape. Read, interact and learn
Triangle Sort Sort the triangles by type - scalene, equilateral and isosceles	Polygon Naming Label each polygon by its official name	Polygons Learn, practice, play and explore. Find out about the names, sides and angles of polygons
No Matter What Shape Your Factions are in explores fractions in a fun way using coloured pattern blocks. Very interactive	Maths Mobile Lesson plan, templates and everything you need to make your own 3D shapes mobile	Polyhedra Lesson idea of how to explore nets of solid shapes
Free Printables Nets of solid shapes to print out
Math Art Posters and Clock Arithmetic Make your own posters using clock arithmetic LOTS of fun	Revise Wise Maths Offers these fun interactive introductions to shape followed by activities and worksheets.Ages 4 to 11	Maths is Fun A wonderful interactive site that makes k-12 maths interesting and fun.
Virtual Pinboard An online goeboard. Draw shapes, drag to re-shape and re-size. Choose colours. Print finished shapes	Patterning An 'Illuminations' tour of patterning.	What Students Can Learn About Art and Geometry Part of a series of pages, this one looks at finding the angles in triangles drawn inside circles.
Cayley Quilt Maker Play online with this interactive quilt maker to explore symmetry and tessellation.The applet can be downloaded for Windows machines and can print .bmp images of the quilts	Patterning This Canadian site has links to other sites dealing with patterning.(sorted by type of patterns)	Virtual Quilt A site for quilters that has some interesting information about patterning in quilt making
Quadrilateral Sort Sort the quadrilaterals using a Carroll diagram	Quadrilateral Quest Do you know their properites?	Mystic Rose and Other Shapes explore how to make star shapes by joining straight lines
Sliceforms What are they? Fun 3D models of solid shapes. Download one today	Symmetry A web site about symmetry with links to other sites.	Crystals Links crystals to polyhedra, explores the nets of polyhedra, and provides links to many more sites.
Geodesic Domes Make your own domes from rolled up newspaper	IMAGES Stands for Improving Measurement and Geometry in the Elementary School. " This web site contains information and resources that are designed to help teachers develop a deeper understanding of geometry and measurement concepts and to assist in designing meaningful instruction for elementary students."	Breaking Away From the Maths Book Has a drop down list to select a range of interesting approaches to learning mathematics
Paper Models of Polyhedra Download these nets of some amazing saolid shapes and make your own models	Spidron A flexible, space-filling structure. If you're intrigues by 3D shapes, you'll love this	R U B B E R Geometry Covers topology, flexagons, networks, curves, mobius strip, map colouring and much more.
Maths - The Four Colour Theorem	Journey to the Centre of a Triangle Explore how one teacher took his students through this problem solving approach	Fractals Explore these amazing shapes
William's Home Page Lots of really interesting activites to do with a focus on maths. Includes shapes and patterns with circles, geometric shapes with magic paper, multicultural maths, window patterns and more.	Maths Frog Choose your grade level (4, 5 or 6) then learn about maths through these fun activities	GeoGebra GeoGebra is a free dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra and calculus.
Wholemovement An amazing site about using paper folding to learn about solid shapes based on circles	Dot and graph paper Download a variety of paper from this site (includes isometric paper)	Fractals Explore the exciting world of fractals - five to choose from, I like the tree best. You can even download a freeware fractals software for PCs
Symmetry An amazing collection of resources about symmetry, with examples from nature and the man-made world	Point Symmetry Investigate rotatiional symmetry and download dot paper to record your work.	Chapter Nine Learn how to make kaleidometrics and geodesic domes
3D paper constructions V iew these amazing constructions at Flickr

Last updated 4th October 2008
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