Geometric thinking resources

Student identify the direction and amount of rotation a shape has undergone.

Students identify books on a bookshelf using the directions left and right.

Students draw shapes to continue tessellation patterns.

Students identify the number of faces for different 3-dimensional cube models.

Students design school library badges by creating four symmetrical patterns using 2-dimensional shapes. A display board template is included for students to put their work on.

Students draw in the reflected images of two sketches along a given mirror line.

Students cut and glue shapes to complete patterns involving translation, reflection and rotation.

Students use given shapes to cover grids in tessellating patterns.

Students select the correct way to describe where a toy is located on a shelf.

Students identify the 2-dimensional shapes on a robot's body.

Students match three dimensional shapes with nets that could be folded to make them.

This task requires students to calculate the size of angles using their knowledge of angles and parallel lines: alternate angles, corresponding angles and co-interior angles. Understanding of adjacent angles on a straight line is also required.

Students identify distances and mark positions on a treasure map with a scale.

This task requires students to write a set of instructions based on compass directions that would guide a lost tramper to a Rescue Hut on a map with marked paths and landmarks.

Students demonstrate their knowledge of north, south, east, and west by giving the names of people shown on a plan of a forest park.