Geometric thinking resources

Students draw in places onto a map following compass directions given in relation to existing landmarks.

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

Students use a plan of the school and a scale to answer questions about length and distance of buildings and courts in the school.

Students write the bearing and distance of a number of objects on a radar screen.

Students locate positions on a treasure map using the major compass directions.

Students identify whether reflection, rotation, or translation best describes how a shape has been transformed.

Students show their understanding of directions by identifying which child will be chosen in a circular game for which clockwise instructions are given.

Students enlarge a diagram to a given scale.

For this NEMP task students perform a range of tasks involving symmetry, shape and angle identification, and reflection.

In this practical task, students construct 3-dimensional shapes from nets (provided), and then draw them on a grid.

Students use a given number of multi-link cubes to build two buildings with different heights.

In this practical task, students draw pictures of 3-dimensional prisms onto a square grid. A net for each prism is provided.