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Prisms and pyramids - years 5 and 6

This is a website providing four activities to develop students' familiarity with three-dimensional shapes, in particular prisms and pyramids. The resource focuses on assisting students to use geometrical language to describe prisms and pyramids, understand their properties and construct geometrical models. The activities ...

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Construction of prisms and pyramids

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that refers to the construction of prisms and pyramids from the Australian Curriculum for year 6 students. It contains material on prisms and pyramids including their properties and their construction from nets. There are pages for both teachers and students. The ...

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reSolve: Authentic Problems: Pyramids in a Box

This sequence of four lessons focuses on working with solids and their nets. The lessons provide opportunities for students to work flexibly as they construct simple prisms and pyramids from nets they have created. Students record their mathematical thinking as they work through iterations to refine a box that has the least ...

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Shapes and objects: Year 6 – planning tool

This planning resource for Year 6 is for the topic of Shapes and objects. Students describe the properties of 2D shapes and use this knowledge to build objects from their nets and, identify objects from their nets.

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7M04A Volume - Ochre Education

This four lesson unit of work focuses on volume. Students define and determine the volume of structures formed using unit cubes, giving answers with the appropriate units; establish and use the formulas for the volume of rectangular and triangular prisms, and cubes using the area of the unchanging parallel cross-sections ...

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8M07A Volume and capacity - Ochre Education

This four lesson unit of work focuses on volume and capacity. Students convert between volume units using the cube of the length conversion, convert between volume and capacity; calculate the volume and capacity of prisms with cross-sections that are triangular, quadrilateral, or irregular shapes; and investigate a rich ...