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Name the shapes - advanced 3-D shapes
Drag the name of the 3-D shape to its correct image. When you are finished, use the ‘Mark’ button to see if you are right.
Discussion points
- How can our knowledge of 2-D shapes help name the 3-D shapes?
- What is the same? What is different?
- What everyday uses could these shapes have?
Teaching tips:
Allow children to handle and explore these 3-D shapes. The teacher or a child could place one of the shapes into a bag and try and describe it to the rest of the class using mathematical vocabulary (some keywords could be displayed on the board to help). See if children can guess the shape. Ask what 3-D shape it could and could not be.
Stem sentences:
‘The shape I am feeling has _____.’
‘The shape could be a _____ or _____.’
‘The shape cannot be _____ because ______.’
Use with ‘How many vertices? - 3-D shapes’ or ‘How many faces?’ to move onto looking at the properties of 3-D shapes.
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