Cutting Corners

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Purpose

This is a Level 3 Geometry activity from the Figure It Out Series.
A PDF of the student activity is included.

Achievement Objectives
GM3-3: Classify plane shapes and prisms by their spatial features.
Student Activity

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Specific Learning Outcomes

identify three dimensional shapes.

Required Resource Materials
cardboard circles, rectangles, and triangles

rubber bands or string

FIO, Level 2-3, Geometry, Cutting Corner, page 24

model spheres, cylinders, and cones

Activity

“Solids of revolution” are created when a flat (two-dimensional) shape is rotated about an axis.

Activity One

As the circle turns, its rotational image is a sphere, like the shape of a basketball or a planet.

sphere.

Activity Two

The rotational image of a rectangle is a cylinder.

cylinder.

Activity Three

The rotational image of the triangle is a cone.

cone.


Students may wish to investigate the rotational images of other shapes, such as:

shapes.


Some examples of solids of revolution are woodturning on a lathe and figure skating.

Answers to Activities

Activity One
1. A sphere
2. The list could include balls, marbles, soaps, parts
of buildings, poi, and oranges.

Activity Two
1. A cylinder
2. The list could include paper rolls, tins, jars,
poles, and tubes.

Activity Three
1. A cone
2. The list could include ice-cream cones, traffic
cones, and turrets.
 

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Level Three