Grade 5 · Math · Unit 9 of 10
Prisms, Pyramids & Moves
3D objects, slides, flips, turns
What your child practises
Naming and classifying prisms and pyramids by their bases, counting faces, edges and vertices, and describing single transformations: translations (slides), reflections (flips) and rotations (turns).
Saskatchewan Curriculum outcome: SS5.5, SS5.7 · faces and edges of 3-D objects, and single transformations
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
Which of these is a pyramid?
- cylinder
- pyramid
- cone
- cube
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pyramid
Hint: A pyramid has 1 flat base and triangular faces that meet at a point. A cone has a point too, but its base is a circle and its surface is curved.
Question 2
What do all prisms have?
- Only triangular faces
- A curved surface
- 1 base and a point at the top
- 2 matching bases joined by rectangles
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2 matching bases joined by rectangles
Hint: Think of a box or a tent: the shapes at both ends match.
Question 3
How many vertices (corners) does a square pyramid have?
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5
Hint: Count the corners of the base, then add 1 for the apex (the point at the top).
Question 4
Which single transformation changes the first letter into the second?
b → p- translation (slide)
- reflection (flip)
- rotation (turn)
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reflection (flip)
Hint: A translation slides (no turning or flipping). A reflection flips over a line, like a mirror. A rotation turns around a point.
Question 5
Point A was translated (slid) to A′. How many units down did it move?
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3
Hint: Count the grid squares from A to A′ going straight up or down only.
Question 6
Which describes the translation from A to A′?
- 4 units right, 2 units up
- 2 units right, 4 units up
- 2 units right, 4 units down
- 2 units left, 4 units up
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2 units right, 4 units up
Hint: Count how far A moves across (right or left) first, then how far it moves up or down.