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Make models of three-dimensional objects and describe key features (ACMMG063)

Elaborations
  • exploring the creation of three-dimensional objects using origami, including prisms and pyramids
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Solids (Geometry)

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Face painter: finding faces 1

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Identify polygons on a range of prisms and polyhedra such as a cube, square pyramid or triangular prism. Picture in your head all sides of a solid. Estimate how many faces the object has. Rotate it to see all of its faces. Paint each face of a given shape such as a triangle or rectangle.

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How does your garden grow?

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This Stage 2 resource grew from a conversation between young students questioning why they could still buy grapes if they were out of season. This wondering led to a discussion around when we grow certain fruit and vegetables. The original stimulus was extended to cover planting for the seasons and factors that influence ...

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First steps in mathematics: Space

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This guide supports teachers to develop students’ geometric understandings.

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Categorisation

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Use this task to assess students’ knowledge and understanding of properties of shapes, and language they use when describing common features.

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Geometry: Foundation to Year 9

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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.

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Guess My Shape or Object - Calculate

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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.

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Pattern Blocks - Calculate

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This activity uses pattern blocks to explore patterns and the relationship between numbers. Students use the blocks to create and describe other shapes and since the blocks are relational they can be used for other investigations. For example, turn the blocks into units – if the triangle is one what is the value of the hexagon?

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Introduction to Shapes Year 2 - Calculate

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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 ...

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MathXplosion, Ep 33: On the grid

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Explore graphs, grids and mapping with a focus on reading and writing location data using coordinate geometry. Grids and maps illustrate the concepts of parallel/perpendicular lines (axes or labelled number lines), ordered pairs and intersection points.

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Rotations of two-dimensional objects

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This is a four-page HTML resource about solving problems concerning quarter turns of two-dimensional objects. It contains four questions, one of which is interactive, and one video. The resource discusses and explains quarter turns to reinforce students' understanding.

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First steps in mathematics: Measurement – Book 2

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

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Measurement: Foundation to Year 9

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

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First steps in mathematics: Measurement – Book 1

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The content of this book is organised into topics including understanding units, and direct measuring.

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Measurement (Measure My Island) - Calculate

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This activity allows students to learn about measuring by measuring attributes of irregular shapes. The use of informal units is an important step in order to develop understandings of what it looks like when measuring the attributes of length, perimeter and area.

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Space Race Game (Introducing Algorithmic Thinking) - Calculate

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Space Race is a simple board game that teachers can use to introduce the concept of algorithmic sequencing to students. The teaching points provided with the game assist teachers to introduce the use of an algorithm (a simple set of mathematical instructions) to describe the trajectory of an object across a grid plane from ...

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Primary mathematics: games, simulations and modelling

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These seven learning activities, which focus on 'games, simulations and modelling' using a variety of tools (software) and devices (hardware), illustrate the ways in which content, pedagogy and technology can be successfully and effectively integrated in order to promote learning. In the activities, teachers use games, ...

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Sites2See: Space and Geometry for Primary

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Selected links to online resources that can support the teaching and learning of geometry for primary-aged students.

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Sites2See – number for primary

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Selected links to a range of interactive online resources for the study of number in Foundation to Year 6 Mathematics.

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Cassowary sanctuary

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Help a park ranger to arrange fencing in a wildlife sanctuary. Divide common geometric shapes into equal-sized sections for keeping cassowaries. Group the enclosures to form a quarantine zone for sick and injured birds. Then express divisions of the enclosures as fractions. Work through facts about the life of cassowaries: ...

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Sites2See: Patterns and Algebra

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Selected links to a range of interactive online resources for the study of patterns and algebra in Foundation to Year 6 Mathematics.

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