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
Imagine you have a cube — like a dice 🎲. If you take a photo of it from the front, you see a square.
- 2
What 2-D shape do you see when you look at one face of a cube?
- 3
Here is a cube drawn as a 2-D picture. Can you see the square faces?
- 4
Look at this 2-D drawing of a cuboid (like a cereal box 📦).
- 5
Tap the 2-D shape that matches a square-based pyramid (like a pyramid in Egypt 🏛️).
- 6
Which 3-D shape has 2-D drawings that always show circles?
- 7
A 2-D drawing of a cylinder shows which two 2-D shapes?
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