Categorisation
Use this task to assess students’ knowledge and understanding of properties of shapes, and language they use when describing common features.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
- Purpose
- Assessment advice Assessment tasks
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P2, P3)
- Publisher
- Department of Education WA
- Copyright
- © Department of Education WA 2013. Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0
- File type
- File size
- 0.1 MB
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