Playing around with shapes and spaces enhances your ability to work visually. These tasks are designed to have you play with the geometrical world. In a puzzle format, they ask you to get out pencil and paper and draw your shapes, cut them out, put them together and generally muck about with shapes and spaces.

The Cat On The Mat

The Sphinx

Perfect Match

Matching Matches

Geo Gems

Midgets, Mutts, Guys and Geese

A Maze in Fractions

Squares, Squares

Hex a Hexagon

Shapely Borders

Bibliography: A list of the books which have served to inspire tasks within the EUMY Mathematics set.

Acknowledgements. The author would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of her mathematical models who appear throughout these tasks:

Epsilon-pi and Smidgin Ubiquitous

We call them Epsi and Smidge!