The purpose of this activity is to support students using their understanding of properties to establish differences and similarities between, and among, three-dimensional shapes. Similarity is the basis of classifying shapes by their defined properties and difference is important in recognising non-examples.
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In a Venn diagram, the relationships are shown as follows:
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