Mathematics Year 5 Year 6 Shape

Identifies three- dimensional objects, including prisms and pyramids, on the basis of their properties, and visualises, sketches and constructs them given drawings of different views

Code MA3-14MG

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22 resources

  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    Maths Unit: 3D Shapes

    This Year 6 unit helps students further develop their understanding of the 3D shapes. This includes learning about right prisms, and how sli...

  • Presentation Year: 6

    3D Shapes - Presentation

    This presentation walks students through 3D shape concepts for Year 6, including right and non-right prisms, and how cutting shapes creates...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Geometry City - Map & Maths Design Project Pack

    Geometry City is a creative, project-based maths pack where students design their own town map using their understanding of 2D shapes, perim...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Angles Board Game - Match the Angle

    This engaging angles board game supports students in recognising, naming, and classifying different types of angles. Players roll a die, mov...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    3D Shapes Quiz

    This quiz is designed to be used as a summative assessment task for this part of the curriculum. It allows you to check your students unders...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Finding Prisms

    Students use what they know about right prisms to identify right prisms, non-right prisms, and non-prisms in a group of objects. This wor...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Revealing New Shapes Through Cutting

    In this worksheet, students perform a short experiment by cutting a cylinder to see the 2D shape that appears in the cross-section. This...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Stacking Shapes Into Prisms

    This worksheet, designed in line with the elaborations from the national curriculum, help students visualise prisms as a stack of 2D shapes....

  • Resource Year: 6

    Prisms and Pyramids - Assessment

    This worksheet is designed to be used as a piece of summative assessment for Year 6 shape. It assesses your students’ ability to recognise a...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Drawing Prisms

    This worksheet allows you to assess your students’ understanding of how prisms are constructed by drawing prisms. This sheet is part of a l...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Shape Cutter

    This worksheet extends students’ understanding of shapes where they now have to imagine cutting a shape on a horizontal or vertical axis and...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Matching Shapes to Nets

    In this worksheet, student link nets to their corresponding 3D objects. This sheet is part of a larger unit designed to help students ident...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Shape Cracking, Shape Staking

    In this worksheet, students take apart and combine familiar shaped in unfamiliar ways. It is a great way to refresh some of the shape knowle...

  • Resource Year: 6

    Navigating Nets

    In this worksheet, student link nets to their corresponding 3D objects. This can be used as a formative assessment at the beginning of a sha...

  • Resource Year: 6

    What is a Polygon Poster

    This poster was created to be an attractive classroom resource to help students differentiate between pyramids and prisms.Β 

  • Resource Year: 6

    Is it a Right Prism? - Student Reference Card

    This card is designed to be a reference for students to help them differentiate between pyramids and prisms.Β  The card is part of a large...

  • Worksheet Year: 3 4 5 6

    3D Objects and Their Nets

    3D Objects and Their Nets

  • Resource Year: 6

    Nets of 3D Objects

    This poster shows your students the nets of some familiar 3D shapes. Β 

  • Resource Year: 3 5 6

    Pyramid Chase - Pyramid Prism Game

    The Pyramid Chase - Pyramid Prism Game is a 2 player game designed to help students differentiate between prisms and pyramids. It supports t...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Properties Of 3D Shapes Extended

    Made by request, Properties of 3D Shapes Extended features the following shapes:- Pentagonal Prism- Hexagonal Prism- Octogonal Prism- Dodeca...

  • Resource Year: 3 5 6

    What is a Pyramid and Prism

    Made by request, these two charts describe the differences between Pyramids and Prisms.

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    3D Nets

    These 3D Nets were kindly provided by a dedicated university student, Tarsh, who has chosen to share some of her valuable resources with us.

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