Look at these three shapes on the board: a square, a triangle and a hexagon. Every corner is a little turn from one side to the next, so every corner is an angle. Hands up: which shape do you think has square-corner angles like the corner of a window?
Look at each shape and its corners. Every corner is an angle. We will also bring in a rectangle here, a new shape, so we can compare its corners with the square's. For each shape, look at its corners and be ready to say how many there are, and whether each one looks like a square corner, a sharper corner, or a wider corner.
This time the class decides before we look. For each shape, first predict every corner: thumbs up for a square corner, thumbs sideways for sharper, thumbs down for wider. Then we reveal the corners and check who was right. We do this for the square, then the rectangle, then the triangle, then the hexagon.
First watch the board. We draw one square, then at each right-angle corner we draw a tiny square inside the corner. That little square is the right-angle symbol. Check all four corners get the same mark.
In your maths copy, draw a square and mark each right-angle corner with the little square symbol. Then draw a triangle and mark its smallest corner.
Now we test real shape cards with the paper right-angle tester. First make your tester: fold your sheet of paper in half, then fold it in half again. The new corner where the folds meet is a sharp square corner.
Then check the corners of these shapes in turn: a square, a triangle, a wide triangle, and a rectangle. Slot the paper corner into each one and see if it fits exactly, or is too small, or too big.
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