Each year when I have to teach 3d shapes in Mathematics I always struggle to find the disk with all my nets on it. This year I’m getting in early and I’m planning on getting them onto my website so I can find them relatively easily

You will notice that I’ve added a memory tag to each face i.e. a square pyramid has three triangular faces and one square face. The net prints out in A4 and is a nice size to make a class mobile out of.

You can download the net as a Word document or and Acrobat file from the Mathematics area of my website.

cheers

Adrian

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When using Learning Journals to get students reflecting at a metacognitive level I often find that the entries become ’similar’ in their style and content.

Tonight I’ve worked on changing the modality of some of my ‘tried and true’ question stems to ensure more ‘considered’ answers are given to student reflections.

eg

• Today I explored……………. and found………………..
• I think it is important to know about………..because…
• I believe (insert famous person) would say that… (insert issue/concept/learning) is …. because……

Visit my Question Stems webpage.

cheers

Adrian

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