First steps in mathematics: Space – diagnostic tasks

A collection of diagnostic tasks designed to use with students to assess their understanding of space-related concepts in mathematics.

Additional details
Year level(s)	Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6
Audience	Teacher
Purpose	Teaching resource
Format	Downloadable resources
Teaching strategies and pedagogical approaches	Questioning, Feedback
Curriculum alignment
Strand and focus	Space
Topics	Shapes and objects, Angles and geometric reasoning
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 AC9M4SP01 Represent and approximate composite shapes and objects in the environment, using combinations of familiar shapes and objects AC9M5SP01 Connect objects to their nets and build objects from their nets using spatial and geometric reasoning AC9M6SP01 Compare the parallel cross-sections of objects and recognise their relationships to right prisms
Numeracy progression	Understanding geometric properties (P3, P4, P5)
Copyright details
Organisation	Department of Education, Western Australia
Copyright	© State of Western Australia. Creative Commons BY 4.0.