Primary School Mathematics Checklist - Space

Although this list is presented in relative order, remember that there will be considerable overlap and your child won't necessarily learn these skils in the order below.

Regions and Boundaries

• Inside and outside
• Open and closed
• Plane and curved surfaces enclosing space
• In, out, high, low, up, down, under, over, above, below, on, off, top, bottom, inside, outside, between, before, after, in front, behind, near, far, large, small, on, by, smaller, smallest, larger. largest, as small as, as large as.

Angles

• Concept of angles, right angles
• Set square
• Identify and draw acute, obtuse, reflex, straight angles
• Drawing compass
• Pattern making
• Copy length, bisect lines
• Perpendicular bisector
• Construct congruent angles
• Construct polygons within circles
• Measure angles with protractor
• Construct angles
• Construct circles within polygons
• Magnetic compass
• Geo-liner

Solids

• Sorting
• Properties of cubes, spheres, cones, cylinders, pyramids
• Surfaces
• Properties of other solids
• Relationship between faces, edges and vertices
• Nets
• Discrimination of similar and congruent solids

Symmetry

• In body, nature and shape
• In plane figures

Shape

• Sort, recognise, name the nine shapes
• Properties of the nine shapes
• Symmetry in regular and irregular polygons
• Congruence - lines, plane shapes, solids
• Congruent triangles
• Construct triangles using set square
• Parallel lines
• Construct quadrilateral and congruent quadrilaterals
• Similarity of everyday plane shapes and solids
• Construct similar polygons
• Properties of a circle
• Discrimination of similar and congruent plane shapes
• Properties of polygons
• Construct squares and rectangles
• Identify, name and construct triangles
• Sum of interior angles of triangles

Lines/Ruler

• Curved and straight
• Draw straight lines
• Connect points
• Vertical, horizontal, oblique lines, recognise and draw
• Intersecting lines
• Draw specific lengths
• Diagonals of polygons
• Parallel lines
• Perpendicular lines - recognise, name and construct
• Spatial terms - point, line, segment and ray

This checklist is taken from Chapter 9 Checklists in Getting Started with Hoemschooling Practical Considerations by Beverley Paine, available from Always Learning Books.