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Virtual geoboard
Use physical or virtual geoboards to explore shapes and describe their properties.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P3, P4)
- Publisher
- NRICH
- Copyright
- © 1997-2022 University of Cambridge. Free-for-education material.
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