:Trapezium
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Approach: Station  Level: Year 4 and 8
Focus:     Creating geometry shapes
Resources: 3 shapes: red trapezium, green triangle, blue parallelogram 
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Questions / instructions:
Look at the 3 shapes.
If you had a bucket full of these shapes, there would be different ways you could make a trapezium.

Draw the different ways you could make trapeziums, showing the shapes you would use for each one.

One has been done for you.
 
% responses
2005 ('01)
Y4
Y8
Number of different trapeziums made correctly:
5
33 (29)
39 (38)
 
4
24 (22)
27 (30)
3
14 (13)
11 (10)
2
9 (7)
6 (5)
1
9 (9)
6 (4)
0
12 (19)
11 (13)

Commentary:
Most students were able to make at least four different versions of the trapezium. Differences between year 4 and year 8 were small. There was little change between 2001 and 2005.
 
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