Remind your students that maths isn’t just about numbers with this detailed lesson from Colin Foster that encourages pupils to take a closer look at what we know about geometry, and polygons in particular.
What makes a parallelogram a parallelogram? Can the attributes of a shape be mathematically defined and used to decide whether, say, something that looks like a rhombus actually is one?
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KS3 Maths Lesson Plan – Use Geometry to Define the Attributes of the Shapes Around Us, Like Parallelograms and Rhombuses
