Maths Shapes
Year 3
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Sphere:
Peel a Clementine/ orange and try putting the flakes back together to form a sphere.
Hemisphere: Half a sphere shape
Cube:
· Use a square box. Using one side of the box for size cut out 6 pieces of coloured paper. These should be the
SAME size. Now stick these on the box, one on each side. This helps them retain the fact that all
sides of a cube are equal to each other. The child could also put 6 pictures/ names of either the
family/ friends/ comic book heroes. This will help them remember how many sides the cube has.
Cuboid:
· Use a rectangular box (cereal) Some sides are rectangles while others may be squares. Ask
your child to paint/ colour the sides that look the same in size the same colour. Now you can
discuss its properties.
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Maths Shapes
Year 3
2D and 3D shapes
Make a cardboard necklace out of shapes – Triangle, square, rectangle, quadrilateral, pentagon,
hexagon, octagon, circle, semicircle:
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Help your child cut out the shapes using a cereal box or any other cardboard and make a hole in the
centre through each shape.
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Ask your child to paint/ colour them on both sides.
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Have the child write down the name on one side and the number of sides
on the other.
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Now they can thread it together for their very own shapes necklace.
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Year 3
Maths Shapes
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Prism - has 2 opposite faces that are the same shape as each other. Its other faces are all
rectangles.
A vertex is another word for a corner or intersection where 2
lines meet. Two or more corners are called vertices. A triangle
has 3 vertices.
A right angle is another name for a quarter turn
(90 degrees ) of a whole turn (360 degrees).
vertex
vertex
vertex
Right angled triangle - one right angle
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Maths Shapes
Year 3
Quadrilaterals
Different types of Quadrilaterals (a 4-sided plane shape):
Square
(all sides equal,
all angles 90°)
Rectangle/Oblong
(opposite sides equal,
all angles 90°)
Irregular
Quadrilateral
4 lines of Symmetry
2 lines of Symmetry
No lines of Symmetry
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