This location and transformation template, ‘1/2 Centimetre Grid Paper’ asks students to practise location and transformation.
The hands-on activity, ‘A Whale of a Time’ gives instructions for making a whale shape that can be tessellated. The whale shape is made by using the properties of triangles and half-side rotations. This is a fun way to explore tessellations, and the accompanying teaching notes have suggestions for further exploration.
This quick reference chart, ‘Angle Relationships’ offers guidance on the topic of angles.
In the learning activity, ‘Around School’, students need a map of their school (or a part of it). They use throws of dice to walk in different directions, for different distances, marking the route on the map. The activity gives students practice in using directions and compass points. An answer sheet is provided and includes …More
In the learning activity ‘Blocked Plans’ students have to help an architect match up plans and isometric drawings for three buildings. They then make models of the three structures and suggest ways the building could be used. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Building Boldly’ provides opportunities for students to explore the ways in which 3-dimensional objects can appear in different plan views. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This location and transformation worksheet, ‘Chair’ asks students to practise with positional language.
The learning activity, ‘Changing Shapes’ allows students to create something wonderful from a simple geometric shape. Using the properties of the shape and careful translation, students make tessellating shapes that can become interesting images. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Circle Power’, shows four children holding designs that they made with a circle-shaped block. Using circular shapes, students must work out how each design was made. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Congruence and Symmetry’ offers instruction on congruence and symmetry. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Congruence and Symmetry’ offers guidance on the concepts of congruence and symmetry. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Congruent Figures’ allows for practice applying concepts of congruence and symmetry. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This maths template, ‘Coordinate Graphs’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Coordinate Grids’ offers an introduction to plotting coordinates on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Coordinate Grids’ offers an introduction to plotting coordinates on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Coordinate Grids’ offers an introduction to creating geometric shapes in the first quadrant on a coordinate grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This location and transformation worksheet, ‘Coordinate Picture’ asks students to practise plotting points on a grid.
This measurement worksheet, ‘Coordinates 1’ allows for practice reading and plotting coordinate grids. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This measurement worksheet, ‘Coordinates 1’ allows for practice reading and plotting coordinate grids. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Coordinates and Quadrants’ offers an introduction to using coordinates in four quadrants. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Coordinates and Transformations’ allows for practice drawing transformations of shapes on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
To complete the learning activity, ‘Crazy Cubes’ students replicate the growth of crystals by using multilink cubes. They must identify and follow a crystal’s regular pattern of growth over time. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity, ‘Cube Creations’ is also a learning activity students can share. They use the multilink cubes to draw and make different shapes, and challenge classmates to recreate their shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This hands-on activity, ‘Cut It Out’, explores reflection symmetry. Students cut designs into folded paper circles and then analyse the shapes when the circles are opened up. The accompanying teaching notes offer suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity ‘Cut It Out!’, includes a learning activity that gives students opportunities to explore different kinds of symmetry. They fold and cut paper strips to discover the symmetry formed, and explain how it was made. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Cutting Corners’, instructs students to make cardboard shapes and spin them to see the rotational image. Students then list common objects with the same shape as the image. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Data Analysis and Probability’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of data and probability. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Data Analysis and Probability’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of data and probability. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Data Analysis and Probability’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of data and probability. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Data Analysis and Probability’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of data and probability. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Data Analysis and Probability’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of data and probability. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Data Analysis and Probability’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of data and probability. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Directions Along a Grid’ allows for practice giving and following directions along a map or grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This location and transformation worksheet, ‘Dog and Bone’ asks students to practise with positional language.
This location and transformation template, ‘Dot Paper’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘First, Next and Last’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness by identifying the position sequence of various objects.
The learning activity ‘Flipping Fish’ provides two activities for practising a sequential pattern. In the first activity, there are two variables to consider. In the second activity, students uncover the fascinating Fibonacci sequence. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Follow That Thread’, explains how to make curve pictures by drawing lines on shapes and threading wool or string on cards. The lines create the envelopes of conic sections: ellipses, parabolas, circles, and hyperbolas. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Front and Back’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness by identifying the front and back of various objects.
This learning activity, ‘Fun Run’, includes a scale map of a town and asks students to design a fun run route. Students use the map to estimate distances. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Geometric Patterns’ offers instruction on using iterative procedures to generate geometric patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Geometry and Measurement’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of geometry and measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Geometry and Measurement’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of geometry and measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Geometry and Measurement’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of geometry and measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Geometry and Measurement’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of geometry and measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Geometry and Measurement’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of geometry and measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This Assessment Item, ‘Test Practice: Geometry and Measurement’ can be used to assess students’ understanding of geometry and measurement. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Geometry in Everyday Life’ investigates the occurrence of geometric relationships and properties in everyday life. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In this learning activity, ‘Getting in Line’, students use pattern blocks and mirrors to find the lines of symmetry in various shapes and patterns. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Going on a Treasure Hunt’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to use location words to find treasure. It is aimed at helping students use appropriate location words. It provides treasure hunt direction cards, a treasure chest template and a treasure chest lid template.
In the learning activity ‘Growing Up and Down!’ students have to work out what happens when a new machine increases or decreases them some geometric shapes. They use isometric paper to draw the changed shapes, and explain the changes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further …More
This learning activity, ‘Hidden Shapes’, develops visual memory and the use of geometric language. Students provide each other with instructions for making a shape with pattern blocks and for finding a hidden pattern block in the classroom. The accompanying teaching notes offer suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘In and Out’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness by identifying the position of an object in relation to being in or out of an item.
The learning activity, ‘Inside Out’ uses triangles to help students explore the properties of triangles and rectangles. They identify the interior and exterior angles of quadrilaterals then make predictions about the angles of other shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Isometric Representation 1’ allows for practice with isometric representations of plans and blocks. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Isometric Representation 2’ allows for practice drawing the top, front and side views of three-dimensional figures. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity ‘Join the Queue’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. The problems engage students in thinking about the strategies they can use to solve problems that involve standing in line, using maps, time, and calculator displays. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support …More
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Line and Rotation Symmetry’ allows for practice drawing and identifying transformations on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry worksheet, ‘Lines of Symmetry’ allows for practice with symmetry of shapes. Answer sheet provided with file download.