Shape in Year 5

Year 5 is a good time to revisit measuring length accurately using a ruler, as well as calculating missing lengths in 2D shapes. Two aspects of angle are important in Year 5. One is being able to measure and draw angles using a protractor. Before children begin to measure angles...

Shape in Year 4

Turning clockwise and anticlockwise will be revisited in Year 4, as will classifying angles into acute, obtuse and right angles. Children will be expected to know the names of, and recognise, some quite tricky 3D shapes. These include prisms, cuboids, cylinders and pyramids. As well as this, the term prism...

Shape in Year 3

Children are introduced to angle in Year 3 and that the size of an angle describes an amount of turn. Right angles are seen as a quarter turn, and that 2 right angles will make a half turn and 4 right angles will make a full turn. Acute and obtuse...

Shape in Year 2

In Year 2 children will develop their understanding of simple 3D and 2D shapes, exploring in more detail the properties of familiar shapes. They will come across new terms such as ‘vertices’, count the faces on more complex 3D shapes and draw 2D shapes with the help of ‘dotted’ and...

Year 1 3D and 2D Shape

The key thing in Year 1 is that children have as many opportunities to handle shapes as possible. They will probably start by looking at 3D shapes as these shapes can be touched and moved. They will be expected to recognise and name some 3D shapes, including cubes, cuboids, pyramids...

Tutorials

Looking for clear, straightforward explanations on how to do maths? Explanations that really help children understand maths. Then you need to take a look at our new step by step tutorials.Each tutorial covers just one concept, can be played again and again and is short and sweet; just two or...