We have been working on our knowledge of shapes, especially plane shapes (no not the Airbus ones!) this morning Oscar helped run a lesson where a porowhita (circle) who we'd helped shape change into a tapatoru (triangle) now wanted to shape change again into a taparara (trapezium).
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| Angus and Anika working out if the angles on a trapezium could help them to know if any sides were parallel. |
We had to work out what the features or attributes were of each shape and then find a way to check if our shape matched that.
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| Natasha and Ella finding out how to shape-change their tapatoru into a taparara. |
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| What do you think of our taparara/trapezium's? |
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| Oscar leading the class in shape sorting |
There was lots of discussion around what 'parallel' means. What do you think it means?
Two lines that run along side each other but never cross - the distance between them remains the same. Do we ever see parallel lines in nature or only in person made environments ? Can anyone think of any examples found in nature ?
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