Geometric thinking resources

Students identify points on a circular grid using references that give distance and direction (expressed in clock bearings).

Students select the correct name for regular quadrilateral shapes.

Students draw reflections of an object with a mirror line.

Students identify which transformations could have been used one shape onto another.

Students draw shapes to continue tessellation patterns.

Students use given shapes to cover grids in tessellating patterns.

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

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