Geometric thinking resources

Students identify different shapes from clues about their properties and then create their own clues to share with a buddy.

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

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.

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 identify positions on a grid using grid references.

Students give grid references, and drag and drop grid references onto a grid.

In this practical task students design a net for a lidded cardboard cube to hold a tennis ball. They then cut out and construct the cube.

In this practical task students design a net for a lidded cardboard box to hold 3 "chocolate bars" represented by hundreds blocks. They then cut out and construct the box.

Students are required to describe the compass direction and distance that an ant travels toward different items of food positioned on a grid.

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

Students use their knowledge of transformation to complete an enlargement of a bird by a scale factor of two.

Students use a template to complete three rotations of a bird in the cage. The same template is used to draw the reflection of the bird using the mirror line shown on the cage.

Students write down the names of the 2-dimensional shapes that a Geo Bird is constructed from.

In this practical task students predict what the widthwise and lengthwise cross-sections of a selection of fruit and vegetables would look like.

Students continue tessellating patterns which all use the same base shape.

In this practical task students use straws to construct skeleton models of 3-dimensional shapes from given drawings.

In this practical task students use multi-link cubes to construct two 3-dimensional models from pictures of each model from two different viewpoints.

In this practical task, students use multi-link cubes to construct two 3-dimensional models from pictures of each model from two different viewpoints.

Students sort different shapes into tessellating and not tessellating categories and explain their reasoning.

In this practical task, students use drawings to identify the number of multi-link cubes needed to construct 3-dimensional shapes. They then construct the objects.

Students identify the smallest fraction of a turn so that a shape remains the same.