Angles in triangles (age 7+)
Your child can draw shapes to fit a rule, like 'a shape with 5 sides'. They can name triangles, pentagons and hexagons.
In curriculum terms
Recognise and draw shapes having specified attributes (e.g. a given number of angles or equal faces); identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes
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How to tell they’ve got it
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If your child is given instructions like "draw a shape with 5 sides" or "draw a shape with all equal angles," can they draw it correctly?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 3 ACARA · 2 NSW · 3 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as “opposite”, “parallel”, “curved” and “straight”
identify angles as measures of turn and compare angles with right angles in everyday situations
identify common uses and represent halves, quarters and eighths in relation to shapes, objects and events
NSW syllabus codes & stages only
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.