Shapes Teaching Resources
This comprehensive collection contains a variety of 2D shape and 3D object teaching resources. Use the educational posters as a visual stimulus in your primary classroom. Also provided are hands-on learning activities, games, vocabulary word wall cards, nets of shapes and a maths mentals widget. Use the pre and post tests to ascertain each student's prior knowledge before starting a shape unit of work.
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2D Shape Bingo
Engage your students while consolidate learning about 2D shapes, their names and properties with 2D Shape Bingo!
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Shape Playdough Mats for Fine Motor Development
A set of 6 shape playdough mats to help children develop their fine motor skills and identify different 2D shapes.
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Identifying Lines of Symmetry Worksheets
Use this set of differentiated worksheets to help students practise the process involved with identifying lines of symmetry on two-dimensional shapes.
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Attributes of 2D Shapes Worksheet Set
Share this attributes of 2D shapes worksheet set with your students to help them categorise and analyse two-dimensional shapes.
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Line of Symmetry 2D Shapes Interactive Activity
Engage your students in a variety of interactive activities all focused on the line of symmetry for 2D shapes.
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Building With Angles – Interactive Game
Transport your students to a local construction site to solve building-related angle problems with this interactive maths game.
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Measuring and Drawing Angles – Task Cards
Improve student understanding of angle measurement with this set of 24 task cards.
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Types of Angles Task Cards
Explore the six main types of angles with this set of 24 task cards.
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3D Objects Maths Investigation – Be an Architect!
Relate knowledge of 3D objects to the real world with this student-led mathematics project.
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Memory Matcher PowerPoint – 3D Shapes
Recognise and recall the names of some of the most common 3D objects with a digital memory game!
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Finding Co-Interior Angles – Year 7 Maths Worksheet
Identify and calculate co-interior angles with this one-page maths worksheet.
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Colouring 2D Shapes Worksheet
A worksheet to consolidate students' understanding of rectangles, squares, circles and triangles.
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Individual 2D Shapes Posters - BW
2D Shapes and their names, diagrams and properties on individual posters.
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Symmetry Picture Task Cards
Use these fun and colourful symmetry picture task cards to help students identify lines of symmetry in both everyday objects and 2D shapes.
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Build and Compare 3D Shapes Task Cards
Use 3D shapes task cards to help students build, compare and describe rectangular prisms through hands-on investigations with cubic blocks.
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3D Shapes Cross Sections Building Mat with Task Cards
Explore 3D shapes cross sections with a hands-on task card activity that encourages students to build, slice, predict and record the cross section of a 3D shape using playdough models.
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Right Prisms and their Cross-Sections Poster
Learn about right prisms and their cross-sections with this informative classroom poster.
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Drawing Parallel Lines and Perpendicular Lines Worksheet Set
Utilise this drawing parallel lines and perpendicular lines worksheet set to give your students practice drawing line types on their own and on 2D shapes.
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Year 4 Geometry Christmas Game- Classifying Shapes
Identify 2D and 3D shapes and their attributes with an exciting Christmas Geometry Game!
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Drawing Angles Poster
Remind your students how to draw angles using a protractor with this classroom anchor chart.
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2D Shapes Poster
Use this colourful poster with a collection of 2D shapes in your maths classroom.
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Real-World 3D Objects - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Explore three-dimensional objects in the real world with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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2D Shapes Comparison Worksheet
A set of two 2D shape worksheets for students to record their observations whilst comparing properties of 2D shapes.
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2D Shapes Mystery Bag
This 2D shapes interactive teaching resource helps students to identify the properties of 2D shapes everyday items in their environment.
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2D Shapes Similarities and Differences Presentation
Support teacher instruction to help enable students to identify similarities and differences between 2-D shapes with this 18-slide deck.
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Interactive Maths Review – Activities for Years 5, 6 and 7
Review important maths concepts covered in years 5, 6 and 7 with a student-led interactive activity.
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Sorting 2D Shapes and 3D Objects (Pot of Gold Theme)
Sort coins that feature 2D shapes and 3D objects into their corresponding pots with a St. Patricks Day theme!
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2D Shapes - Interactive PowerPoint Presentation
An interactive PowerPoint presentation that teaches the features of 2D shapes.
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Shape Seekers PowerPoint
An interactive 162-slide PowerPoint that follows the story of a professor and their new invention that turns 2D shapes into 3D objects.
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2D Shape Maths Investigation - My Crazy Cubby House!
A mathematics investigation involving 2D shape, embedded in a real-world context.
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I Have, Who Has? – Complementary and Supplementary Angles Game
Play a whole-class game to review complementary and supplementary angles.
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Printable Protractor Templates
Teach your students how to measure angles using a protractor with these 180° and 360° printable protractor templates.