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Extra Practice 1

Lesson 1: Objects in Our World

1. Use a rectangular prism.
Sketch each face and name its shape.
Write all that you know about a rectangular prism.
2. Use a triangular prism.
Sketch each face and name its shape.
Write all that you know about a triangular prism.
3. Look through magazines.
Find as many examples as you can of objects shaped like:
a) a rectangular prism
b) a triangular prism

Lesson 2: Constructing Prisms

1. Use some or all of 16 green Pattern Blocks.
Make as many triangular prisms as you can.
Describe each prism you make.
2. Use all 20 Snap Cubes.
Make as many rectangular prisms as you can.
Describe each prism you make.

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Extra Practice 2

Lesson 3: Exploring Nets

You will need scissors and 2 Jello boxes.
Carefully cut along the edges of one box so it lies flat.
Cut along the edges of another box a different way, so that it lies flat.
Trace around each flattened box.
1. What have you made?
2. How are your tracings the same? How are they different?

Lesson 5: Symmetrical Shapes

Draw all the lines of symmetry on each shape.

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Extra Practice 3

Lesson 6: Line Symmetry

1. Copy each shape on dot paper.
Each broken line is a line of symmetry.
Complete each shape so it is symmetrical.
a)

b)

Lesson 7: Sorting by Lines of Symmetry

Write all the capital letters of the alphabet:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Draw a Venn diagram.
Sort the letters using these attributes:
Has 0 lines of symmetry.
Has 1 line of symmetry.
Has more than 1 line of symmetry.

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Extra Practice Sample Solutions

Extra Practice 1 Master 6.30

Extra Practice 2 Master 6.31

Lesson 1: Objects in Our World

Lesson 3: Exploring Nets

1. Answers may vary.

If students trace a rectangular prism, they will
have 3 pairs of congruent rectangles. If
students trace a square prism, they will have 1
pair of congruent squares and 2 pairs of
congruent rectangles. If students trace a cube,
they will have 6 congruent squares.
A rectangular prism has 6 rectangular faces
and opposite faces are congruent.

1. I have made a net for a rectangular prism. Nets

may vary; for example,

2. Students should trace 2 congruent triangles

and 3 rectangles. The rectangles will be
congruent if the triangle is equilateral; there will
be 2 congruent rectangles if the triangle is
isosceles.
A triangular prism has two triangular faces that
are its bases and 3 more rectangular faces.

2. The tracings are the same in that they have the

same 6 faces. They are different because the 6
faces are arranged in different ways.

Lesson 5: Symmetrical Shapes

Lines of symmetry are shown below.

3. Answers will vary; student may find buildings

and cereal boxes shaped like rectangular
prisms; very few real-world objects are shaped
like triangular prisms.

Lesson 2: Constructing Prisms

1. Here are possible triangular prisms: all 16
triangles will make one large equilateral
triangle one block high; 9 and 4 of the triangles
will also make triangular prisms one block high;
8 of the triangles will make a prism 2 blocks
high; 12 of the triangles will make a prism 3
blocks high; 16 triangles will make a prism 4
blocks high; 16 triangles can also be stacked
16 high.
2. Here are possible rectangular prisms: a 1 by
20 array, a 2 by 10 array, a 4 by 5 array all one
block high; a 1 by 10 array and a 2 by 5 array
both two blocks high;

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Extra Practice Sample Solutions continued

Extra Practice 3 Master 6.32

Lesson 6: Line Symmetry
1. a)

b)

Lesson 7: Sorting by Lines of

Symmetry