Mathematics / Year 2 / Measurement and Geometry / Shape

• TLF-IDA003560

This comprehensive resource describes the progression of geometric reasoning. The resource demonstrates examples of relevant teaching strategies, investigations, activity plans and connected concepts in geometry including teaching and cultural implications.

• TLF-IDA004275

The focus of this activity is to encourage and support students to describe two dimensional shapes and three dimensional objects according to their features or properties.

• TLF-IDA004345

The focus of this activity is to discover the language that students are using to describe the features of shapes. Although students may know the names of many shapes, and may know the difference between a square and a circle, the description of why these shapes are different may not be mathematically accurate. Listen to ...

• TLF-IDA002229

This PDF is a worksheet that accompanies the years F-2 sample assessment task called Stepping out.

• TLF-IDA003135

This planning resource for Year 2 is for the topic of Position and location. Students interpret simple maps to describe directions from an object relative to another, using positional and directional language.

• TLF-IDA003539

Students identify a variety of three-sided shapes and describe the features of all triangles.

• TLF-IDA003562

A guide to teaching about measurement including indirect measuring, and estimating.

• TLF-IDA003134

This planning resource for Year 2 is for the topic of Informal units. Students extend their understanding of uniform informal units to measure and compare the lengths, mass and capacities.

• TLF-IDA003136

This planning resource for Year 2 is for the topic of Shapes and objects. Students develop their reasoning when comparing and classifying shapes by their attributes. They develop the spatial language to describe shapes.

• TLF-IDA003515

Students compare and order several shapes and objects based on length, area, volume and capacity using appropriate uniform informal units.