MathsYears 5–6Geometry - Properties of Shapes

Identify 3-D shapes from 2-D representations

Identify 3-D shapes, including cubes and other cuboids, from 2-D representations

What you'll learn

  1. 1

    Imagine you have a cube — like a dice 🎲. If you take a photo of it from the front, you see a square.

  2. 2

    What 2-D shape do you see when you look at one face of a cube?

  3. 3

    Here is a cube drawn as a 2-D picture. Can you see the square faces?

  4. 4

    Look at this 2-D drawing of a cuboid (like a cereal box 📦).

  5. 5

    Tap the 2-D shape that matches a square-based pyramid (like a pyramid in Egypt 🏛️).

  6. 6

    Which 3-D shape has 2-D drawings that always show circles?

  7. 7

    A 2-D drawing of a cylinder shows which two 2-D shapes?

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