Drawing 3-d Shapes II

Drawing 3-d Shapes II

Pencil and paper
Overview
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This task is about making shapes from nets, and drawing views of 3-D shapes.
Practical task

Look at the models of the cube and the triangular prism.

Draw an accurate picture of each shape in the box below.

 

 

Template of Cube
Template of Triangular Prism
Task administration: 
This task is completed with pencil, paper and scissors.
 
Equipment:
Models of a cube and a triangular prism made from the templates.
  • Place the triangular prism so that it is sitting on a rectangular face.
Copyright: 
(C) NZCER
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Shape
Keywords: 
model construction, nets, spatial visualisation, 3-dimensional shapes, triangular prisms, cubes, drawing
Description of task: 
In this practical task, students construct 3-dimensional shapes from nets (provided), and then draw them on a grid.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, sets 4-5
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
a) 1 or 2 faces of the cube are squares.

The other faces are parallelograms.
[It is possible to draw a cube with 3 or more parallelograms.
Correctly drawn cubes of this sort should be given 2 marks.]
b) 1 or 2 faces of the prism are triangles.

The other face or faces are parallelograms or rectangles.