We devised this activity to go one step further in our knowledge of shape and when using word searches. Rather than give the children the words to find - as in a normal a normal word search, we wanted the focus to be on maths. Therefore, when completing this activity, the children receive 19 knowledge based questions about 2D shapes (including quadrilaterals, triangles, circles and their properties, as well as other polygons). The answers to the questions will lead the children to finding the wo