How can you tell they’ve got it: Building with 3-D Shapes?

If they’ve got it, you’ll see things like: Stack cubes and prisms to build towers or structures; Combine 3-D shapes to make a new solid (e.g. cone on top of cylinder); Describe a composite 3-D shape in terms of its component shapes. Or just try it together: Can your child combine 3-D shapes — like stacking cubes and cylinders — to build a new composite solid?

Mathematics Geometry Ages 6–7

Building with 3-D Shapes

Your child can build new solids from smaller ones. They can stack cubes, or put a cone on top of a cylinder.

In curriculum terms

Compose three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, right circular cylinders) and create composite shapes; build new shapes from component shapes

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How to tell they’ve got it

Tick these off as you see them — no test required.

Stack cubes and prisms to build towers or structures
Combine 3-D shapes to make a new solid (e.g. cone on top of cylinder)
Describe a composite 3-D shape in terms of its component shapes

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Try this together

Can your child combine 3-D shapes — like stacking cubes and cylinders — to build a new composite solid?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on

3-D shapesages 4–6Need to recognise 3-D shapes before composing them

Building & Drawing Shapesages 5–6Experience building/modelling shapes supports composing 3-D shapes

Building with 3-D Shapesthis skill · ages 6–7

Unlocks

Nothing on the map depends on this yet.

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

Show candidate curriculum codes · 2 NSW · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1).

NSW syllabus codes & stages only

MA2-3DS-01high confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 2

MA2-2DS-02medium confidenceMathematics K-10 · Stage 2

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2M2SP01low confidenceMathematics · Level 2 · Space strand

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.

Nearby on the map

2-D faces on 3-D shapesages 6–7 2-D shapesages 6–7 Angles in trianglesages 6–7 Composing Shapesages 6–7

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