Secondary maths collection

Welcome secondary maths teachers! Are you looking for quality assured resources, designed to make lesson planning easier? Spanning across multiple topics and key stages, this extensive collection, hand-picked by members of the Tes maths panel, is the perfect starting point...

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    Names and properties of quadrilaterals

    Lesson presentations and activities

    • Angles and Polygons, 2D Shapes
      Key Stage: 3 ★★★

      In this game, you turn over two cards. You get to keep those cards if you can draw a triangle which has both properties. Otherwise the cards are returned and the next player takes their turn.

      The game provides a powerful and engaging context for working on properties of triangles/quadrilaterals.

      This resource has comprehensive teachers' notes and resources, linked from the problem page. This includes possible approaches and key questions, as well as possible support and extensions.


      The file attached is a HTML file, which, when opened, automatically redirects you to the problem on the NRICH website.

      • http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=2925
      • Shapely--Pairs---2925.gif
      • Shapely--Pairs---2925.html

      Reviews

      TES Resource Team7 years ago5

      Thank you for publishing your resource. It has been selected to be featured in a new secondary maths collection.

      whieldon12 years ago5

      Thanks, my yr 9's will be suitably challenged by this.

      mrbuckton4maths13 years ago5

      An excellent resource, with a fantastic game to encorage and invigorate students to investigate properties of triangles and quadrilaterals. I shall definitely be using this resource. Thank you for sharing a fabulous resource.

    • Angles and Polygons, 2D Shapes
      Key Stage: 3 ★★

      Can you arrange eight of the property cards around the outside of this grid and then draw quadrilaterals in the grid which have the properties corresponding to both their row and column?

      This game provides an interesting context in which to consider the properties of quadrilaterals (or triangles), and has a particular focus on the combinations of properties that are possible.

      This resource has comprehensive teachers' notes and resources, linked from the problem page. This includes possible approaches and key questions, as well as possible support and extensions.


      The file attached is a HTML file, which, when opened, automatically redirects you to the problem on the NRICH website.

      • http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=2927
      • Property--Chart---2927.gif
      • Property--Chart---2927.html

      Reviews

      TES Resource Team7 years ago5

      Thank you for publishing your resource. It has been selected to be featured in a new secondary maths collection.

      missblilley8 years ago5

      This is a great activity for pupils to play around with different criteria for triangles and see which combinations work well together and which don't work at all. The separate cards for triangles and quadrilaterals are also very useful, thank you

      Frenchgribou13 years ago3

      Many thanks from France !

    • This worksheet asks children to name shapes then draw them and decide why some shapes are more difficult to draw than others.

      • Properties-of-quadrilaterals---triangles.pdf

      Reviews

      ozzyshortstop345 years ago5

      Thank you

      TES Resource Team7 years ago5

      Thank you for publishing your resource. It has been selected to be featured in a new secondary maths collection.

      moin7867 years ago4

    • Geometry worksheet activity: Cut out the facts on triangles and quadrilaterals and put them in to groups: Always True; Sometimes True; Never True.

      • Triangles and Quadrilaterals.doc

      Reviews

      zkadw14 years ago5

      Great hands on activity.

      swilly16 years ago5

      good to get the students reasoning

      TES Resource Team7 years ago5

      Thank you for publishing your resource. It has been selected to be featured in a new secondary maths collection.

    Practice questions, homeworks and assessments

    • A powerpoint listing the properties of quadrilaterals including angles, equal/parallel sides, line and rotational symmetry and diagonals. Some slides/ideas taken from other resources credited below. Thanks to Owen134866 for the starter slide which the rest of the powerpoint is based on! (original resource found at: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/How-many-Quadrilaterals-6329853/) Thanks to bademola for the riddle questions (original resource found at: http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Quadrilaterals-6129305/)

      • quadproperties.pptx

      Reviews

      sfonso6 months ago5

      Brilliant! Exactly what I was looking for after losing my previous download. Thank you

      taimoor_anser2 years ago5

      Excellent resource especially the quiz at the end as well. Thanks.

      suzannerey3 years ago5

      Excellent, thanks!

    • All triangles and quarilaterals plus a regular polygon slide with 8 statements that students must decide whether they are always, sometimes or never true. This should create discussion. I have said that squares are a type of rectangle, and a rhombus is a type of parallelogram.

      • Properties-of-2D-Shapes-Matching.pptx

      Reviews

      TES Resource Team23 days ago5

      We are pleased to let you know that your resource Properties of Shapes Matching, has been hand-picked by the Tes resources content team to be featured in https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog/shapes-maths in November 2024 on https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/blog. Congratulations on your resource being chosen and thank you for your ongoing contributions to the Tes Resources marketplace.

      shearwood6 years ago5

      Fab! Thank you.

      jparry26 years ago5

      brill

    • KS3 shape, space and measure. Geometrical reasoning. Worksheets and activities. The topic of Polygons from the Year 8 book of the Mathematics Enhancement Program. For information about these resources and an index for the whole collection please visit http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/CIMT.htm Keywords: Polygon, Angle, Property, Fact, Interior, Exterior, Pentagons, Octagons, Hexagons, Heptagons, Decagons, Symmetry, Line, Rotation, Order, Flow Chart, Quadrilaterals, Square, Rectangle, Trapezium, Rhombus, Kite, Parallelogram.

      • 1. Practice Book.pdf
      • 2. Activities.pdf
      • 3. Extra Exercises.pdf
      • 4. Lesson Plans.pdf
      • 5. Detailed Lesson Plans.pdf
      • 6. Mental Tests.pdf
      • 7. Overhead Slides.pdf
      • 8. Practice Book Answers.pdf
      • 9. Revision Test.pdf
      • 10. Teaching Notes.pdf

      Reviews

      naseemshazia4 years ago5

      A great resource to make revision resources

      mandy8886 years ago5

      hafsalayali6 years ago4

      A very comprehensive resource. Thank you for sharing.

    • A simple sheet where they have to link the shape to the properties - made for a purpose but other may find it useful.

      • Triangles and Quadrilaterals Properties.docx
      • Triangles and Quadrilaterals Properties - Answers.docx

      Reviews

      hankboot2u2 years ago5

      Thank you.

      euodia25 years ago4

      eirinibioscience5 years ago5