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card rectangles,
• New shapes from old . • • Make your own tile • sticky tape, scissors,
backing sheet
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IJJ Find at least 8 other shapes
made by fitting pairs of blocks together.
Record in your own way. m Try to make your new shape tessellate.
@] Decorate and colour at least part of your tessellation.
CHALLENGE
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Fit together these shapes:
9 to make a larger triangle
6 to make a 6-pointed star
3LY and 6 to make another 6-pointed star o
6 '" and 6 to make a regular hexagon

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Practical: finding at least 6 other shapes by fitting pairs of blocks together. Practical: creating /
tessellating tiles.
Challenge
Some possible solutions: (1/3 a)