The National Flag of India is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of deep saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre.
The average child can do this at age seven, and others at age eight. A very small number of children may even be able to recognize and name a variety of shapes in any orientation, such as semi-circles, quadrilaterals, trapezoids, rhombi, hexagons, etc. The average child can recognize such shapes at age eight.
Childrenâs levels of understanding As children develop, they think of shapes differ-ently. At the prerecognition level,children perceiveshapes but are unable to identify and distinguishamong many shapes. They often draw the sameirregular curve when copying circles, squares, or tri-angles (Clements and Battista 1992b). At the next,visual, level, children identify shapes according totheir appearance (Clements and Battista1992b; van Hiele 1959/1985).