Geometry (2D & 3D shapes): Megan's Snowflake

3 - Further Challenges

Further Challenges

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Further Challenges

  • Have a go at making your own snowflake with four lines of symmetry. Before you open it out, can you visualise what it is going to look like?
  • Here is a picture of a new snowflake with four lines of symmetry that a boy called Mohamed made:

Can you create one exactly the same as Mohamed’s?

You can find the solution to this problem here:

Mohamed’s-snowflake-answer

  • If you would like a serious challenge, use the step-by-step instructions to create your own snowflake with six lines of symmetry, just like a real snowflake.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04lmssm/player

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Credit: BBC One – Earth’s Seasonal Secrets