Properties of 2D Shapes
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What You Get
This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
- An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
Curriculum Coverage
Curriculum Coverage
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Teacher Benefits
- Save time and simplify your Maths planning
With every lesson clearly sequenced and ready to teach, our Maths schemes take the stress out of planning and ensure smooth progression from one objective to the next. - Ensure National Curriculum coverage
Each unit in our Year 4 Maths curriculum has been carefully designed to meet National Curriculum objectives, giving you complete confidence that every skill and concept is taught and revisited. - Support for every teacher, every class
Clear explanations and built-in differentiation make our Maths lessons easy to deliver for ECTs and experienced teachers alike, supporting adaptive teaching across a range of abilities. - Build confidence and fluency for all pupils
From reasoning and problem-solving to fluency practice, each lesson helps children develop mathematical understanding in engaging, hands-on ways that make learning stick.
Help your class learn more about shapes with this great 'Properties of 2D Shapes' scheme of work for Year 4. Your children will explore and identify a variety of quadrilaterals and triangles, learn how to calculate the perimeter and area of rectilinear shapes, and use their shape knowledge to classify shapes according to their properties.
With everything you need to teach a whole week's worth of shape work, including lesson plans, engaging slides, activity ideas, differentiated worksheets, shape cards and much more, this 'Properties of 2D Shapes' scheme of work is the perfect way to get your class into shape!
Quadrilaterals
The first lesson Maths series focuses on quadrilaterals. To kick things off, find out what your class already know about 2D shape, then build on that by exploring the properties of a range of quadrilaterals. Go on to classify and sort shapes using lists, tables, Carroll diagrams and even ‘stained glass’ shape colour-coding pictures!
This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Quadrilateral key
- Quadrilateral; colouring sheet
- Quadrilateral templates
- Worksheet
Triangles
This Properties of Triangles KS2 Year 4 Maths lesson gets straight to the point by identifying the unique properties of different types of triangle. Your class will use a range of methods for sorting and classifying the triangles, including continuums, tables and branching diagrams.
This downloadable maths lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Triangle cards
- Triangle colouring sheet
- Triangle key
Perimeter of Polygons
The included slides with this lesson explain in easy-to-understand terms how to calculate the perimeter of polygons by measuring and totalling the lengths of their sides. There's plenty of opportunities for children to practise this during either of the included activities, too!
This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources. Browse through the images to see the resources in more detail.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Shape cards
Area of a 2D Shape
During this lesson, your class will learn how to find the area of a 2D shape. First children will find the area of rectangles by counting squares, and then they will apply the same methods to find the areas of more complex compound shapes. As with all of the 'Properties of 2-D Shapes' lessons, there's a choice of two activities included, so you can choose one that best suits your learners!
This downloadable lesson contains a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
The Great Shape Sort
The final lesson in the series gets your class sorting 2D shapes. It gives your children a chance to show how they’ve progressed by identifying, describing and sorting a wide variety of 2D shapes according to all of the criteria they’ve learned about during the week!
This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation and printable teaching resources.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Shape sheet
- Shape cards
Medium-Term Plan
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