Presentation: Designing a Shape Fact Slide with Accurate Maths Words

Slide 1 of 7 · Settling starter · Maths · Year 5

5 minutes

Designing a Shape Fact Slide with Accurate Maths Words

Tomos is in Year 5. His class is making a slideshow called Shape Facts to teach Year 3 pupils about 3D shapes. He chose the cube.

His first draft has a wrong fact, spelling mistakes and a messy layout. Your job is to find the problems and plan a better slide, on paper.

While the register is called: write your name, class and date on your worksheet. Read section 3 of the stimulus sheet, where Tomos’s words are big enough to read.

Starter question: Tomos called his slide My work. Why is that a poor title for Year 3 pupils? What would be better?

DCF: Producing → Creating digital content No computers needed · pen, pencil, ruler, coloured pencils

Slide 2 of 7 · Today’s brief and key words · Maths · Year 5

4 minutes

Your brief: fix Tomos’s slide, then plan a matching one

You will find the problems, learn the maths words and spell them correctly, count faces, edges and vertices, then plan 2 clear slides for Year 3 readers.

Face

A flat surface of a 3D shape. A cube has 6 faces and every face is a square.

Edge

A line where 2 faces meet. Dashed lines in a drawing are edges at the back.

Vertex

A corner where edges meet. More than one vertex: vertices.

LNF: Literacy → Writing → Vocabulary, spelling, grammar Look at every button on the pretend toolbar

Slide 3 of 7 · Steps 1 and 2: spot the problems, word bank · Maths · Year 5

13 minutes

Step 1: find the wrong fact, 8 spellings and 5 layout problems

Use section 3 of the stimulus sheet. Find the 1 wrong fact, the 8 misspelt maths words and the 5 layout problems, each with a toolbar button that could fix it.

Tomos wrote	Correct spelling
prisim	prism
sqaure	square

Then Step 2: match each word in the word bank to its meaning, cover it, write it from memory and check it. Pick 4 tricky words and a spelling strategy for each.

Step 1: 8 minutes · Step 2: 5 minutes Say long words in beats: per-pen-dic-u-lar

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “Step 1, 8 minutes. Read Tomos’s text in section 3. One fact is wrong. There are 8 maths words spelt wrongly, and the first 2 are on the board. Then write 5 layout problems and the button numbers that would fix them. Then Step 2: match the words to meanings A to K, spell them from memory and choose 4 strategies.”

Quick check, Step 1: wrong fact: A cube has 8 edjes, a cube has 12 edges. Spellings: prisim/prism, sqaure/square, edjes/edges, verticies/vertices, paralel/parallel, perpendiculer/perpendicular, quadrilatral/quadrilateral, angels/angles. Layout: title My work says nothing (new title, 2 Size, 3 Bold); text size 8 too small (2 Size); Fancy Script hard to read (1 Font); one long block, no bullets (6 Bullet points, 3 Bold); photo on its side, cube tiny, mug and pencil in the way (9 Rotate, 8 Crop, or 7 Insert image).

Quick check, Step 2: letters in order face B, edge F, vertex J, vertices D, parallel H, perpendicular A, quadrilateral K, right angle G, prism I, pyramid E, square C. Any explained strategy is fine, for example vertex becomes vertices like index becomes indices.

Slide 4 of 7 · Step 3: faces, edges and vertices · Maths · Year 5

7 minutes

Step 3: count faces, edges and vertices

Dashed lines are edges at the back that you cannot see. Count them too. Tick each edge in pencil as you count it.

Shape	Faces	Edges	Vertices	Shapes of the faces
Cube	6	12	8	6 squares
Square-based pyramid	?	?	?	?
Triangular prism	?	?	?	?

Step 3 on your worksheet · 7 minutes Count the dashed edges at the back too

Slide 5 of 7 · Steps 4 and 5: plan 2 clear slides · Maths · Year 5

21 minutes

Step 4: a better cube slide. Step 5: a matching prism slide

Each slide needs a title that says what it is about, a drawing labelled face, edge and vertex, and 3 bullet points with correct facts and maths words spelt correctly.

Model title: Facts about a cube

Model bullet point: It has 12 edges and 8 vertices.

Model button choice: 2 Size, title size 36, bullet points size 24, so everyone can read it from the back of the classroom.

Slide 2 is about the triangular prism, in the same style. Which buttons make it quickly and make it match?

Step 4: 12 minutes · Step 5: 9 minutes Drawing on the left, 3 bullet points on the right

Supply teacher script (no subject knowledge needed)

Say aloud: “Step 4, 12 minutes. Plan Tomos’s cube slide again in the frame on your sheet. Remember it is for Year 3. Then write 4 buttons you would use and how each one helps Year 3 readers, and the font and size. Step 5, 9 minutes: plan slide 2 about the triangular prism in the same style, using your counts from Step 3.”

Walk the room: cube bullets should say 6 faces, 12 edges, 8 vertices, every face a square, opposite faces parallel. Prism bullets: 5 faces (2 triangles and 3 rectangles), 9 edges, 6 vertices. Good button choices: 1 Font (a clear font like Arial), 2 Size, 6 Bullet points, 3 Bold for maths words; 9 Rotate and 8 Crop for the photo. For slide 2, look for 12 New slide, then 10 Copy and 11 Paste the title and bullet boxes so font, size and bold match, and 7 Insert image for the new drawing.

Slide 6 of 7 · Step 6: swap and check · Maths · Year 5

3 minutes

Step 6: swap sheets and check the maths words

Swap with a partner. Check every maths word on their 2 slides against the word bank in Step 2. Tick it, or write the correct spelling next to it.

I can spot problems with the facts, spelling and layout of a slide.
I can count the faces, edges and vertices of 3D shapes.
I can plan a clear slide and choose buttons (font, size, bold, bullet points, crop, rotate) that help my audience.
I can plan a second slide that matches the first, with precise maths words spelt correctly.

Step 6 in pairs · 3 minutes Write the correct word, not just a cross

Slide 7 of 7 · Plenary review · Maths · Year 5

2 minutes

Quick-check answers before handing in

Let’s check 3 answers together before your worksheets are collected.

Question	Correct answer
What was the wrong fact on Tomos’s slide?	“A cube has 8 edges.” A cube has 12 edges (and 8 vertices).
How many faces, edges and vertices does a triangular prism have?	5 faces, 9 edges, 6 vertices: 2 triangles and 3 rectangles.
Which buttons make slide 2 match slide 1?	12 New slide, then 10 Copy and 11 Paste the title and bullet boxes.

Check your name and class are on your worksheet Leave stimulus sheets neat on the desk