In Year 6, we have been revising our knowledge of angles and the properties of shapes.
We have drawn 2-D shapes using given dimensions and angles.
We compared and classified geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes and found unknown angles in regular polygons.
We can recognise angles where they meet at a point, are on a straight line, or are vertically opposite, and find missing angles.
We can recognise and describe 3-D shapes, .
Today, we put everything that we have been learning into action by drawing our own nets for 3D shapes.
We had small pictures of nets as inspiration but we had to use rulers, protractors and our measuring skills to translate the small picture onto squared paper. We chose which shapes to make and we didn’t know if they were correct until we cut them out ND assembled them. Many of us had to show resilience while we kept on trying!
We soon realised that the easiest net to make is a cube as it is just 6 squares. A tetrahedron is not as hard as it looks as long as you remember to create equilateral triangles where each angle is 60⁰, whereas a square based pyramid is much more tricky than it looks as you need to draw the correct isosceles triangles for them to join up at the top.
We are going to keep on going until we have all made all of the shapes, which will test both our resilience and our Maths skills!
