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Patterns with 2D and 3D shapes

Part of Maths2D and 3D shapesYear 2

Looking for patterns

Here we have a square, a circle and a triangle.

We're going to use them to form a pattern.

A square, a circle and a triangle

This is the pattern formed by the shapes.

Can you work out what the missing shapes are?

Pick the correct answer.

A pattern formed by a square, circle and triangle, a square, a circle and a triangle followed by a square and two question marks with four options to complete the pattern. a. a triangle and circle, b a circle and triangle, c a triangle and square, d two squares

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Example 2

This pattern is made of 3D shapes.

It is a mirror pattern which means it is the same backwards as it is forwards.

3d shapes forming a mirror pattern. A cube, cylinder, pyramid, cuboid, pyramid, cylinder and cube.

Starting on the left, the pattern is cube, cylinder, pyramid, cuboid, pyramid, cylinder, cube.

If you start from the right, the pattern is the same.

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