This learning activity, ‘A Chip off the Old Block’, shows drawings of buildings and asks students to build them using multilink cubes. Students then draw their own building on the isometric dot paper. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Boxes of Tricks’, asks students to use the supplied grid paper to make various pentominoes and then fold them into open cubes. A second activity involves making a tetrahedron from the supplied isometric dot paper. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Different Viewpoints’, asks students to make buildings out of multilink cubes and then draw the buildings from different perspectives. Square grid paper is included. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Exponents’ offers an introduction to using exponentiation. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This number and numerical operations worksheet, ‘Exponents’ offers an introduction to using exponentiation to find whole number powers of numbers. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This hands-on activity, ‘Nutting out Nets’, explores the relationship of three-dimensional shapes and their nets. Students use the square grid paper to make a cube, a triangular prism, a square-based prism, a tetrahedron, and a rectangular prism. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Starting Blocks’, helps to develop spatial visualisation. Students use multilink cubes to model three-dimensional shapes and then draw the shapes on the isometric dot paper. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.