This helpful unit contains resources to help support your students to describe and draw two-dimensional shapes and recognise their key features.
The unit includes a presentation, posters, multiple worksheets, a reference card, group activities and a student assessment tool at the end.
Recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as “opposite”, “parallel”, “curved” and “straight”
Describe and draw two-dimensional shapes, with and without digital technologies
Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols
Sorts, describes, represents and recognises familiar three-dimensional objects, including cones, cubes, cylinders, spheres and prisms
Supports conclusions by explaining or demonstrating how answers were obtained
Manipulates, sorts, represents, describes and explores two- dimensional shapes, including quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and octagons
Recognises, describes and represents shapes including quadrilaterals and other common polygons
Recognises, describes and represents familiar three-dimensional objects