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Points of View

Keywords:
Purpose: 

This is a Level 3 Geometry activity from the Figure It Out Series.

Achievement Objectives:

Achievement Objective: Represent objects with drawings and models.

Specific Learning Outcomes: 

draw views of three dimensional shapes

Required Resource Materials: 
FIO, Level 2-3, Geometry, Points of View, page 11
Multilink cubes
Sqaure grid paper
A classmate
Activity: 

Activity One

Students will need to make Zac’s building through a process of trial and improvement until their model matches the top, front, and right-side views as shown:

view.

In more difficult problems of this type, the top view can be used to organise the data from the other views. For example, with Zac’s building, the maximum heights of each column and row of the top view are:

frontview.
A further challenge to students is to be given three views of a cube building and to make an isometric drawing of it (as on page 10). For example:

isoview

Answers to Activity

Activity One
1. Answers will vary.

2.
answer2.
3.

answer3.


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