Symmetry - Progression Points

Dimension

Level

Progression Point

Space

1.5

• Identification of shapes with symmetry

2.0 Standard

… Students arrange a collection of geometric shapes, such as a set of attribute blocks, into subsets according to simple criteria, and recognise when one set of shapes is a subset of another set of shapes.

They recognise and describe symmetry, asymmetry, and congruence in these shapes and objects.

2.25

• Use of instructions to create tessellations such as in paving and brickwork patterns

3.0 Standard

… Students follow instructions to produce simple tessellations (for example, with triangles, rectangles, hexagons) and puzzles such as tangrams.

3.5

• Construction of transformed shapes and patterns by stamping, folding and rotating

4.0 Standard

… Students classify and sort shapes and solids (for example, prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones) using the properties of lines (orientation and size), angles (less than, equal to, or greater than 90°), and surfaces.