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3-D
This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of 3-D shapes, from folding nets to make cubes to making a dodecahedron.
3-D pack one contains seven work cards with a wide variety of activities covering shapes made from cubes, drawing shapes on isometric paper, building shapes to build cubes, and making a tetraflexagon.
3-D pack two contains thirteen work cards with activities requiring students to list where they may find different solids, note the number of vertices, surfaces and edges of different solids, identify pairs of solids which will combine to form a cube, identify which nets make a prism or a pyramid, explore the nets of dice and draw 3-D shapes on isometric paper.
3-D pack three contains five work cards with activities in which students investigate the different number of coloured faces on a large cube made from smaller cubes, discover what shapes are made when the corners are cut from a cube, fold paper to make a dodecahedron, and draw 3-D solids to complete a partly built cube.
SMILE (Secondary Mathematics Individualised Learning Experiment) was initially developed as a series of practical activities for secondary school students by practising teachers in the 1970s. It became a complete individualised scheme based around a network of activity cards and assessments.
Related resources include answers to all of the cards and test books and answers.
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3-D pack one 3.44 MB
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3-D pack two 3.21 MB
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3-D pack three 1.32 MB
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