This location and transformation learning activity, ‘Make a Line’ asks students to practise plotting points on a grid.
This graphic organiser, ‘Making Predictions’ helps students develop and map ideas for geometric shapes, and as they add more sides to their shapes they start to see that there is more than one right answer.
This location and transformation worksheet, ‘Map the Location’ allows for practice using coordinates. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Maps’ offers guidance on finding the fewest number of colours needed to colour a map. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Maps’ offers guidance on finding the fewest number of colours needed to colour a map or graph. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In the learning activity, ‘Megamaze’ students have to help Crusty the Crayfish negotiate a maze to find his way home. They need to use compass directions and distance measurements to tell Crusty how to do this. An answer sheet is provided and the accompanying teaching notes have suggestions for supporting learning, for example by playing …More
This location and transformation worksheet, ‘Mirror Image’ asks students to practise with symmetry.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Modelling Transformations’ offers an introduction to using a coordinate grid to model and quantify transformations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This data representation template, ‘Name Coordinates’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘On and Off’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness by identifying the position of an object as either on or off.
This learning activity, ‘One Good Turn’, asks students to use pattern blocks to find the rotational symmetry of various figures. Students then make up their own figure with rotational symmetry. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Over and Under’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness, identifying if an object is either over or under.
This learning activity, ‘Pattern Pieces’, asks students to describe the symmetry of five designs. It includes a copy of the designs that students can cut out and manipulate. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
The learning activity ‘Pinning It Down’ poses problems students need to discuss and solve by using number knowledge and strategies. Two are number puzzles and two involve the lines and angles of shapes. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes to support learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Pirate Island’, students follow a set of directions and mark a map with the route to Long von Silver’s buried treasure. Students then hide their own treasure and make up instructions for their classmates to follow. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and …More
This measurement worksheet, ‘Points on a Grid’ allows for practice reading points on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This location and transformation template, ‘Positional Language’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This beginning algebra worksheet, ‘Predict the Pattern’ allows for practice with shape patterns. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Proportional Relationships’ allows for practice identifying the relationships between two-dimensional figures. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity ‘Reflect on This’ contains a variety of short problems for students to solve and discuss. Students need to use a range of strategies to support their thinking. The engaging problems involve paper folding, exploring symmetrical images on a calculator, changing lengths, and the distribution of pocket money. An answer sheet is provided …More
This learning activity, ‘Reflecting on Counters’, helps students to develop the concept of symmetrical reflection using a mirror and a grid of counters. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
For this learning activity, ‘Room with a View’, the class conducts a teleconference with a class from another school and asks them to describe their classroom. Students then draw a scale map of the other classroom. The accompanying teaching notes provide suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Rotation and Reflection’ allows for practice with transformations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity, ‘Sea Symmetry’ provides illustrations students can complete by using reflection symmetry. In the process, students learn how to use the line of symmetry to find the reflection. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Shape Transformations’ allows for practice drawing and identifying transformations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Shape Transformations 1’ allows for practice with transformations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Shape Transformations 2’ allows for practice with transformations on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘Shaping Up’, prompts students to use a geoboard to classify triangles, and rods to analyse squares. Students record their investigations on the supplied geoboard grid sheet and square dot paper. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Similar Figures’ allows for practice applying the concept of similarity. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Similar Figures’ allows for practice identifying similar figures. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The archaeologist Linda-Anna has discovered some eroded clay designs. In this learning activity, ‘Sketching the Etching’, students help to complete the symmetrical designs and then create their own design on a piece of play dough or clay. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Snail Trails’, explores rotation and translation through a snail’s sequence of slides. It asks students to use the square dot paper to plot various slide sequences. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Spatial Relationships’ introduces the concept of spatial relationships. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This location and transformation worksheet, ‘Symmetrical Tiles’ asks students to practise creating symmetrical patterns.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Symmetry and Transformations’ allows for practice with lines of symmetry and transformations along a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
In this learning activity, ‘Taking Flight’, students follow Lola’s line-dancing plan and work out how many repetitions are needed to return to the starting place. A second activity involves drawing the flight paths of everyday objects such as a paper aeroplane. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Tessellations’ offers guidance on space-filling patterns and tessellations. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘The Big Picture’, explains how to use the grid method of enlargement. Students practise with an example on the learning activity and then enlarge their own design to create a poster. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘The Mirror Game’, provides instructions for a game exploring reflection symmetry. To play the game, students use multilink cubes, mirrors, and the supplied grid paper. The accompanying teaching notes offer suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This Beginning Maths activity, ‘Top and Bottom’ encourages students to develop spatial and directional awareness, identifying the top and bottom of various objects.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Transformations’ offers guidance on moving figures in space. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Transformations’ offers guidance on moving figures in space. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Transformations’ offers guidance on moving figures in space. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Transformations’ allows for practice with moving figures in space. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and measurement worksheet, ‘Transformations on Coordinate Grids’ allows for practice modelling and quantifying transformations on coordinate grids. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This geometry and spatial sense worksheet, ‘Transforming Shapes’ allows for practice drawing transformations of shapes on a grid. Answer sheet provided with file download.
The learning activity, ‘Treasure Trove’ is a variation on the old game of Battleships. Two students have a grid each on which they place ‘treasure chests’. They then use ordered pairs of coordinates to find each other’s treasure. The first person to find all the treasure wins the game. An answer sheet contains teaching notes …More
The hands-on activity, ‘Triangle Tricks’ allows students to create something wonderful from triangles and other shapes. Using the properties of the shape and rotational symmetry, 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.
In this learning activity, ‘Tricky Triangles’, students study a tapa cloth design based on tessellations of triangles. Students then use squares or triangles to create their own pattern for a carry bag. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Tumble Time’, students can make cardboard shapes to help them visualise the movement of the shapes and focus on the path, or locus, of a particular point. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Vertex-Edge Graphs’ allows for practice tracing paths between points. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This data and probability worksheet, ‘Vertex-Edge Graphs’ allows for practice tracing paths between points. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This learning activity, ‘Walking Triangles’, introduces Trevor Triangle, who throws a dice to decide which path to take. Students must work out which numbers Trevor threw on particular walks and then make up more walks for him. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In the engaging learning activity and learning activity, ‘Who Lives Where?’, students use a scale map and clues to work out where some children live. They then need to find a scale map of their own area to pose and answer similar questions. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for …More
This hands-on activity, ‘Wrap It Up’, provides instructions for making wrapping paper with a printing block. Students apply translational and rotational symmetry to create frieze-type patterns. The accompanying teaching notes offer suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This worksheet ‘My Ultimate Easter Egg Hunt’ is a great activity that provides students with the opportunity to map out locations of where they would like to hide eggs for an Easter egg hunt. They are then required to write a set of directions to one of their eggs they have on their map of …More
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