Geometric thinking resources

Students use a protractor to locate towns on a map from given compass bearings.

Students write short paragraphs using geometrical terms to describe two pictures. The terms equilateral, scalene, and isosceles are to be used to describe a castle. The words circumference, diameter, and radius are to be used to describe a bicycle.

Students identify the picture of a cat which best shows each of four described transformations of the original cat.

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

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.

This task requires students to indicate the invariant properties of four transformations (translation, reflection, rotation, enlargement).

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

Students identify which shapes are identical to a given shape that have been rotated.

Students identify towns and cities on a map using compass points.

Students use co-ordinates to identify a coded message.

Students identify shapes after they have been rotated in 3 dimensions.

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