2D and 3D Shapes

Looking at the properties of cuboids, prisms and pyramids.

Finding out what congruent shapes are, how to recognise a scalene triangle and using Venn diagrams and tree diagrams to classify shapes.

Identifying regular and irregular 2D shapes.

Nets of cubes and pyramids and making 3D shapes from cubes. Using a pinboard to make 2D shapes that obey set rules.

Net of a 12 sided shape, more on nets for a cube and some ideas for tangrams.

Fun activity looking at the names of 3D shapes.

More revision of 2D shapes.

More nets of 3D shapes which can be cut out and folded to make the shapes.