Geometric "Guess Who"

For our Explore today, we played a fun variation of a very familiar game. Everyone knows how to play the game Guess Who?, and the skills involved were a perfect fit for the math lesson we were doing.

The students looked at a picture featuring many geometric shapes and chose one in their mind. Their partners then had to take turns asking "yes" or "no" questions of their partner until they correctly guessed the shape they were thinking of. Instead of asking about hair colour and whether they were wearing a hat or not, they had to base their questions on the attributes of the shapes. For instance, they had to ask questions about how many sides or vertices there were, parrallel or perpendicular lines, whether the angles were right, acute, or obtuse, or whether it had a line of symmetry.

Shape H, for example, is a six-sided shape (Hexagon) with 4 obtuse angles and 2 acute angles, it has 3 pairs of parrallel lines, no perpendicular lines, and one line of symmetry.

The students had a great time trying to stump their partners, proving once again that games can make any task educational and engaging!