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 ideas about common shapes Young children have many ideas about commonshapes. Levels alone, however, do not give teacherssufficient detail. For this reason, we conducted sev-eral studies of young childrenâs ideas about shapesto help complete the picture (Clements et al. 1999;Hannibal 1999). In all, we interviewed 128 chil-dren, ages 3 to 6, for a total of an hour over severalsessions.