A good tutorial with audio to help pupils learn the names of different polygons and how to draw lines of symmetry on some of them.

Find out about shapes both 2D and 3D and then try your hand at the quiz.

Sort a variety of 2D shapes on a Venn diagram. Sort by one or two conditions.

Identify 2d and 3d shapes and their properties in the context of a castle. Use Venn diagrams to sort shapes according to their curved faces and vertices.

A teaching resource which demonstrates symmetrical patterns. You can generate random patterns and see if you can match the patterns. There is no check on whether you are right or wrong.

A simple demonstration of what axial symmetry is. View simple shapes and see the difference between horizontal, vertical and diagonal axes.

A tutorial explaining rotational symmetry and line symmetry.

An excellent teaching tool to demonstrate rotational symmetry in 2D shapes.

A fantastic interactive resource for demonstrating right angles, clockwise and anti-clockwise, compass directions and turns

A drag and drop activity where you can experiment with symmetry, tessellations or just design crazy patterns or pictures using shapes.

A tutorial explaining the properties of some 3D shapes.

A teacher demonstration tool to show how shapes or combinations of shapes tesselate. Shapes can be dragged and rotated.

This site can be used for a whole class discussion on properties of shapes or for demonstration of symmetry in 2d shapes.

A fun way for children to learn co-ordinates. They have to feed the bug by locating the food.

A coordinates game which includes negative numbers on the grid.

A useful teaching tool for a whole class coordinates activity using different grids and including negative numbers.

A game where you are an archaeologist searching for dinosaur bones. You have to use the grid to put in the coordinates to see where to dig.

Just what the title says. A simple game on coordinates.

Introducing 3D shapes and their terminology such as faces, edges, vertices. The site has a 'test yourself' section.

A teaching tool which is good for learning about solid shapes and their properties. Explore the number of faces, edges and vertices. There are lesson plans which demonstrate how the tool can be used.

A BBC presentation where the climbing frame makes itself into various shapes - a cube, triangular prism, square-based pyramid and a regular tetrahedron. The clip describes the properties of the shapes. Needs Windows Media Player.

A superb teaching resource for learning how to work out the area of shapes including irregular shapes and rectangles. Useful for older primary-aged pupils.

This interactive teaching tool can be used in a variety of mathematical contexts such as multiplication arrays, finding different shapes with the same area, nets and more. It is useful because there are different backgrounds such as dots.

Aimed at 10 to 11 year olds, this interactive lesson on area and perimeter shows you how shapes with the same area can have different perimeters. There are lots of examples to try.

An interactive Flash presentation which explains how to work out the volume of regular shapes.

An appealing game where children need to locate the 3D shapes in illustrations of five different locations.

A useful teaching tool for demonstrating shapes, perimeters and areas.

View nets of various solid shapes: tetrahedron, cube, square-based pyramid, cuboid, hexagonal prism, octahedron, triangular prism, dodecahedron and icosahedron.

A great way to learn how to use a protractor. There's a tutorial on its use and random examples to practise.

An interactive lesson on how to find the area and perimeter of irregular shapes which is presented in an appealing way with cartoon characters. There are examples to try at each stage.

Drag a grid over the pictures to find their areas. You may wish to turn off the annoying audio.