Mathematics Year 5 Year 6 Location & Transformation

Investigates and classifies two-dimensional shapes, including triangles and quadrilaterals based on their properties

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  • Unit Plan Year: 6

    Maths Unit: Understanding Transformations

    The Understanding Transformations - Year 6 Unit Plan is a complete teaching sequence focused on the three key geometric transformations: tra...

  • 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...

  • Unit Plan Year: 5

    Maths Unit: Angles

    This unit is designed to help your students learn how to estimate, measure, draw and compare angles.

  • 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...

  • Presentation Year: 5 6

    Angles - Presentation

    Angles - Presentation

  • 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: 3 4 5 6

    How to Use a Protractor - Poster

    The How to Use a Protractor – Poster is a clear and easy-to-follow classroom visual that breaks down the five key steps for correctly measur...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Transformation Assessment - Year 6

    The Transformation Assessment is a final review task designed to check student understanding of the three main types of transformations: tra...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Rotation Practise Sheet (with Answers)

    •    Use tracing paper or shape tiles to help visualise rotations.•    Highlight or label grid paths to guide step-by-step turns.•    Scaffo...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Reflection Practise Sheet (with Answers)

    The Reflection Practise Sheet guides students in identifying and drawing reflected shapes across three types of mirror lines: vertical, hori...

  • Worksheet Year: 6

    Translation Practise Sheet

    The Translation Practise Sheet is a grid-based activity that helps students visualise and apply translation rules to simple geometric shapes...

  • Worksheet Year: 5 6

    Understanding Transformations - Introduction Worksheet

    The Understanding Transformations - Introduction Worksheet offers a clear and structured entry point into the concepts of translation, refle...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Understanding Transformations - Display Poster

    The Understanding Transformations - Display Poster is a visual reference tool that clearly explains the three key types of geometric transfo...

  • Resource Year: 4

    2D and 3D Shape Safari

    This game challenges students to move around the game board, answering questions about 2D and 3D shapes. It is an engaging and fun way to pr...

  • Worksheet Year: 4

    Shapes ID Card

    This resource provides a lively template for students to create a shapes display. Each student fills in an ID card detailing their shape's a...

  • 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. 

  • 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.  The card is part of a large...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Number Pattern Assessment

    This assessment is part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It has been created to assess students’ understanding to identify, d...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Create your Own Patterns!

    This worksheet is a part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It has been created to support students to consolidate their knowle...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Roll A Rule!

    This engaging activity is a part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It has been created to support students to consolidate thei...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Identifying Number Patterns

    This is the fourth worksheet which is a part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It has been created to support students to cons...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Patterns with Decimals

    This is the third worksheet which is a part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It supports students to identify, describe and c...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Fun Fraction Patterns

    This is the second worksheet which is a part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It supports students to identify, describe and...

  • Resource Year: 4 5 6

    Guess My Pattern

    This class activity is part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit however can be adapted to suit Year 4 and Year 6 students explori...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Recursive Number Patterns

    This is the first worksheet which is a part of our progressive Year 5 Number Patterns unit. It support students to identify, describe and cr...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Number Patterns - Student Reference Card

    These useful number pattern student reference cards support students to recognise that number patterns can increase and decrease with whole...

  • Resource Year: 3 4 5 6

    Number Patterns Posters

    These posters model how number patterns can increase and decrease with whole numbers, fractions and decimals. They are a useful anchor chart...

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Drawing Basic Angles

    In this worksheet, students draw one of each of the three angle types. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to how we meas...

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Comparing Angles

    In this worksheet, students compare angles using greater or less than. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to how we meas...

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    It's Angle Time

    In this worksheet, students identify the angles on a clock. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students to how we measure and dra...

  • Resource Year: 4 5

    Introduction to Angles - Student Reference Card

    This card will act as personal angles reference for the students throughout the unit. It is a part of a larger unit that introduces students...

  • Resource Year: 5

    Angle Quiz A Year 5

    This worksheet functions as an assessment for your students understanding of geometric reasoning in the ACARA Year 5 curriculum. This is a p...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Estimating and Measuring Angles

    This worksheet encourages students to estimate a set of angles before measuring them using a protractor. This is a part of a larger unit des...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Drawing Reflex Angles

    This worksheet shows students how to draw reflex angles using a protractor. This is a part of a larger unit designed to help your students l...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Reflex Angles

    This worksheet introduces students to reflex angles and how they are measured. This is a part of a larger unit designed to help your student...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Drawing Angles

    Explore the world of geometry by mastering the skill of drawing angles. This resource provides step-by-step instructions and practice exerci...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Measuring Angles

    This worksheet outlines the measurement of angles, including its unit, and how they are measured with a protractor.This is a part of a large...

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Angles - Student Reference Card

    This card can be added to students books to help clarify the fundamentals of this unit to your students.This is a part of a larger unit desi...

  • 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.  

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    Protractor Task Cards - All Angle Types

    Practise measuring angles with the protractor task cards. Students will measure and name the angle on each task card. 

  • Resource Year: 5

    Protractor Task Cards - Acute, Obtuse Angles

    Practise measuring acute and obtuse angles with the protractor task cards. Students will measure and name the angle on each task card. 

  • Resource Year: 5 6

    I Have, Who Has - Measuring Angles with Protractors

    'I have, Who Has - Angles' requires your students to accurately measure each angle with a protractor prior to starting the game.  

  • 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: 5 6

    Angles Advanced Game

    This is an extended and advanced version of our original Angles Game.   This game is designed for up to 8 players and includes right a...

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Using Your Protractor

    Enhance students' geometry skills and understanding of angles with this resource focused on using a protractor.  

  • Worksheet Year: 4 5

    Right Angles - Smaller Than, Greater Than, Equal To

    Introduce students to the concept of right angles and comparison symbols with this worksheet.

  • Worksheet Year: 5

    Looking at Angles

    Introduce students to the concept of angles with this resource.

  • 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: 4 5 6

    Angles

    There are 6 different types of angles covered in these A4 charts featuring: Right Angle, Straight Angle, Revolution, Reflex Angle, Acute Ang...

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