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Mathematics / Foundation / Measurement and Geometry / Shape

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Curriculum content descriptions

Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment (ACMMG009)

Elaborations
  • sorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Numeracy Numeracy
ScOT terms

Shapes (Geometry),  Solids (Geometry)

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Play School: Buttons and shapes

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Have you ever looked at the buttons on your clothes? What shapes are they? You will find that most buttons are circles, but sometimes they can come in really different and interesting shapes, sizes and colours! What are some of the button shapes and colours mentioned in this video?

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Shapes All Around Me

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Identify shapes that surround you every day. Look at the bedroom and the playground. What shapes can you see?

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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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Patterns have something that repeats over and over and over again: K–2 Year B – Unit 2

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This two-week unit provides opportunity for students to further develop knowledge, understanding, and skills of two-dimensional shapes and their attributes and properties.

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What needs to be measured determines the unit of measurement: K–2 Year B – Unit 3

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This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills of measurement.

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New shapes can be made by joining (combining) or partitioning (breaking apart) existing shapes: K–2 Year B – Unit 5

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This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding, and skills of how new shapes can be made by joining (combining) and breaking apart (partitioning) existing shapes.

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Objects can be sorted and classified in different ways: K–2 Year B – Unit 19

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This two-week unit develops student knowledge, understanding and skills with three-dimensional objects, volume and internal volume. Students are provided opportunities to name, classify, compare and describe 2D shapes and 3D objects according to their features; recognise that flat surfaces of 3D objects can be named as ...

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The Mathscots: Foundation Level Teaching Guide

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This teaching guide provides a range of activities for each of the Mathscots episodes at Foundation Level. The guide contains a summary of the mathematical focus in each episode, a range of scaffolded learning experiences for before, during and after viewing each video, activities for families at home, and sets of printable ...

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The Mathscots: Biscuit Patterns

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In this animated video, Prime thinks about repeating patterns when Biscuit the Pug visits. The mathematical focus is on creating and describing patterns using materials, sounds, action and drawings; extending patterns left and right using materials and drawings; identifying which part of the pattern is being repeated (unit ...

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The Mathscots: Puppy School Obstacle Course

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In this animated video, Poly the puppy makes her way through an obstacle course which features 2D shapes and 3D objects. The mathematical focus is on sorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes; recognising 2D shapes within 3D objects; understanding and using terms such as ‘first’ ...

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The Mathscots: Obstacle Course at Home

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In this animated video, Abacus the cat sets up an indoor obstacle course after seeing a photo of her friend Poly completing an outdoor obstacle course. The mathematical focus is on recognising 2 dimensional shapes and 3 dimensional objects in the environment; analysing 2 dimensional shapes and 3 dimensional objects by comparing ...

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Making Shapes (Foundation lesson) - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is to encourage students to check their shape to ensure/prove that it is a hexagon. Students need to develop an understanding that good mathematicians find solutions to problems, check to see if their solution is correct and explain their thinking.

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Shapes: Which One Doesn't Belong? - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is to discover what students know shapes, including their features and properties. What language are students using to describe and sort shapes? How can we as teachers help students increase their shape vocabulary?

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Stand up, sit down - Calculate

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This game focuses on listening and matching shape properties to the correct shape, and using mathematical vocabulary to describe shapes.

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Finding Shapes and Objects - Calculate

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The focus of this activity is for students to count a variety of objects in their home environment and write the number for each.

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Work sample Foundation Year Mathematics: Sorting shapes and objects

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This work sample demonstrates evidence of student learning in relation to aspects of the achievement standards for Foundation Year Mathematics. The primary purpose for the work sample is to demonstrate the standard, so the focus is on what is evident in the sample not how it was created. The sample is an authentic representation ...

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Sensational shape hunt

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Students compare shapes. In small groups, students are taken on a 'Sensational shape hunt' outside in the school grounds. They look around, observe and describe the shapes they see in the environment. They may stop to feel the straight or curved edges, the flat or rounded sides or surfaces. They compare shapes and find ...

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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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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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Shapes and objects: Foundation – planning tool

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This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Shapes and objects. Students learn to identify, name and sort common shapes such as circles, triangles, squares and rectangles.

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