Geometric thinking resources

Students colour and cut out 4 shapes and fit them together to make tessellating patterns.

Students identify what shapes look like when rotated through half and quarter turns.

Students identify what a shape plus its image will look like when reflected in a given mirror line.

Students identify the correct line of symmetry from a selection of different shapes with mirror lines.

Students fold and cut paper to make symmetrical shapes.

For this task students are required to demonstrate their understanding of transformations. On three separate grids, they translate, reflect and rotate the same basic shape.

Students cut out 2-dimensional shapes and enlarge them by factors of 2 and 3 using paper squares.

Students construct enlargements of 2-dimensional shapes using sticks.

This task requires students to describe the three transformations an animal picture has gone through, choosing from reflection, rotation, translation, and enlargement.

Students draw reflections of words in a horizontal axis.

Students enlarge shapes by whole number scale factors.

Students identify what a sheet of paper will look like when it is folded and has shapes cut from it.

Students identify which transformation have been used to make different pictures of frogs.

Students identify what transformations are used to continue a pattern.

Students identify axes of symmetry on several shapes and which shape has no axis of symmetry.

Students identify which transformation has been used to map one shape onto another.

Students are required to draw in arrows to show the parallel lines on three given shapes. They then draw in a right-angle symbol to show the perpendicular lines on three other given shapes.

Students draw reflections of shapes in given mirror lines.

Students predict nets that fold to make a cube, then cut out and fold the nets to check their prediction.

Students identify which nets, from a range of options, could fold to make rectangular prisms.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Students construct 3-dimensional shapes from plasticine and predict what the cross-section will be prior to cutting it.

Students observe and draw 4 views of 3-dimensional objects in relation to each other and use these drawings to predict the top view of the same objects.

This task requires students to draw the cross-sections of three differently shaped 3-dimensional containers.

Without looking, and by feeling a range of 3-dimensional objects, students describe physical features of each object.