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. This will be helpful later on in the unit when they begin to think about the cross-section of shapes caused by cutting.
This worksheet is part of a larger unit designed to enhance understanding of 3D shapes for students in Year 6.
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Learning goals
- We are learning to compare the parallel cross-sections of objects and recognise their relationships to prisms.
- We are learning to construct simple prisms and pyramids.
Curriculum alignment
MA3-1WM
old
Describes and represents mathematical situations in a variety of ways using mathematical terminology and some conventions
MA3-14MG
old
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
MA3-2DS-01
new
Investigates and classifies two-dimensional shapes, including triangles and quadrilaterals based on their properties
MA3-3DS-01
new
Visualises, sketches and constructs three-dimensional objects, including prisms and pyramids, making connections to two-dimensional representations
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
Differentiation
Extensions
You may want to do a demonstration of this idea by stacking flat 2d shapes (playing cards, coins) into a 3D object.