Christmas Triangles
Via Year 6 Blog, Here’s a little seasonal ditty to help you remember the properties of Isosceles Triangles (sing to the tune of ‘Oh Christmas Tree’, or ‘O, Tannenbaum’): ISOSCELES, ISOSCELES, TWO ANGLE HAVE THE SAME DEGREES ISOSCELES, ISOSCELES, YOU LOOK JUST LIKE A CHRISTMAS TREE TWO SIDES THE SAME, THREE VERTICES TWO ANGLES HAVE THE SAME [...]
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It might not help you write backwards, sketch the Vitruvian Man, or design a wooden helicopter, but in one tiny respect this challenging ‘eyeballing’ test might just make you a little more like the great Leonardo da Vinci.  Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci The great man of art and science was a famously good draftsman with an apparently perfect eye [...]
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