Face painter: finding faces 1
Students identify polygons on a range of prisms and polyhedra such as a cube, square pyramid or triangular prism. They mentally picture all sides of a solid, and estimate how many faces the object has. They then rotate it to see all of its faces, and paint each face of a given shape such as a triangle or rectangle.
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| Year level(s) | Year 3 |
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| Purpose | Student task |
| Format | Interactive |
| Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches | Concrete Representational Abstract model, Questioning, Culturally responsive pedagogies |
| Keywords | shapes, objects, polygons, cones, prisms |
Curriculum alignment |
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| Strand and focus | Build understanding, Space |
| Topics | Shapes and objects |
| AC: Mathematics (V9.0) content descriptions |
AC9M3SP01
Make, compare and classify objects, identifying key features and explaining why these features make them suited to their uses |
| Numeracy progression |
Understanding geometric properties (P3)
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Copyright details |
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| Organisation | Education Services Australia |
| Copyright | © 2016 Education Services Australia. Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 AU. |
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