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Tracking Maths Objectives by Year – Understanding Shape – Year 6 to 9
Year 6
Progression into
Year 7
Describe, identify and visualise
parallel and perpendicular
edges or faces; use these
properties to classify 2-D
shapes and 3-D solids
Use correctly the vocabulary,
notation and labelling
conventions for lines, angles
and shapes
Make and draw shapes with
increasing accuracy and apply
knowledge of their properties
Extend knowledge of
properties of triangles and
quadrilaterals and use these to
visualise and solve
problems, explaining
reasoning with diagrams
Construct a triangle given two
sides and the included angle
Year 7
Year 8
Exceptional
Performance
Identify parallel and
perpendicular lines; know
the sum of angles at a
point, on a straight line and
in a triangle
Understand and apply
Pythagoras' theorem
Use straight edge and
compasses to do standard
constructions
Deduce and use formulae for
the area of a triangle and
parallelogram, and the
volume of a cuboid; calculate
volumes and surface areas
of cuboids
Visualise and draw on grids of
different types where a shape
will be after reflection, after
translations, or after rotation
through 90° or 180° about its
centre or one of its vertices
Year 9
Know from experience of
constructing them that triangles
given SSS, SAS, ASA or RHS
are unique, but that triangles
given SSA or AAA are not;
apply these conditions to
establish the congruence of
triangles
Know and use the formulae
for the circumference and
area of a circle
Know that translations,
rotations and reflections
preserve length and angle
and map objects on to
congruent images
Tracking Maths Objectives by Year – Understanding Shape – Year 6 to 9
Use coordinates in the first
quadrant to draw, locate and
complete shapes that meet
given
properties
Use all four quadrants to find
coordinates of points
determined by geometric
information
Estimate angles, and use a
protractor to measure and
draw them, on their own and in
shapes; calculate angles in a
triangle or around a point
Know the sum of angles on a
straight line, in a triangle and
at a point, and recognise
vertically opposite angles
Identify alternate and
corresponding angles;
understand a proof that the
sum of the angles of a
triangle is 180° and of a
quadrilateral is 360°
Identify all the symmetries of
2-D shapes; transform images
using ICT
Enlarge 2-D shapes, given a
centre of enlargement and a
positive whole-number scale
factor
Solve geometrical problems
using properties of angles, of
parallel and intersecting
lines, and of triangles and
other polygons
Know that if two 2-D shapes are
similar, corresponding angles
are equal and corresponding
sides are in the same ratio