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Shape Cracking, Shape Staking

Shape Cracking, Shape Staking
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Description

In this worksheet, students take apart and combine familiar shaped in unfamiliar ways. It is a great way to refresh some of the shape knowledge that fades between school years.

The worksheet is part of a larger unit designed to help students identify and construct pyramids and prisms.
 

Lesson Structure
  • Individual Activity
  • Rotations / Group Work
Curriculum Codes

AC9M6SP01 9

Compare the parallel cross-sections of objects and recognise their relationships to right prisms

ACMMG140 8.4

Construct simple prisms and pyramids

VCMMG228

Construct simple prisms and pyramids

MA3-1WM old

Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions

MA3-14MG old

Identifies three- dimensional objects, including prisms and pyramids, on the basis of their properties, and visualises, sketches and constructs them given drawings of different views

MA3-2DS-01 new

Investigates and classifies two-dimensional shapes, including triangles and quadrilaterals based on their properties

MA3-3DS-01 new

Visualises, sketches and constructs three-dimensional objects, including prisms and pyramids, making connections to two-dimensional representations

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