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Centred Shapes

Centred Shapes are made by building up a pattern of dots in a certain shape. Explore how centred shapes can fit together, and see how many patterns you can find!

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Exploring Number Shapes

Find out about centred shapes here! You can watch a short video that shows, in pictures, how centred triangles are made up of a triangular number and a square number. Then, why not explore some of these suggested number relationships yourself?

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Centred Shapes - More to Explore

Can you find any other relationships between different centred shapes, triangular numbers and square numbers? Can you draw diagrams to show why the relationship is true?

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More Centred Shape Relationships

If you're up for a real challenge, have a go at drawing some pictures to prove these relationships between centred shape numbers and other numbers.

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