LVL3 Classify plane shapes and prisms by their spatial features.

Classify plane shapes and prisms by their spatial features.

You will be able to define the characteristics of things and use these.

characteristics as a basis for sorting. Plane figures are those that lie flat,

so have only two dimensions. So circles, triangles, and hexagons are all plane shapes.

At Level Three students should be able to classify plane shapes by the following

characteristics: number of sides and angles (for example all triangles have three sides),

parallel or non-parallel sides (for example a trapezium has one pair of parallel sides),

equal or unequal side length, angle size (less than, equal to, greater than a right angle),

lines of mirror symmetry and order of rotational symmetry (for example a square maps

onto itself four times in a full turn)