1.

2 DESCRIBING
OBJECTS, SHAPES AND
DIMENSIONS

Dimensions have names

 Names of dimensions

Height, width and length are NOUNS

High, wide and long are ADJECTIVES

Height, width, length are

linear dimensions

mm millimetre
cm centimetre
m metre
km kilometre
Patterns used for dimensions 1

high
How wide is ?
long

Patterns used for dimensions 2

height
What is the width of ?
length
 Describing objects
Useful vocabulary:

thickness (adj. thick) pointed

depth (adj. deep) rounded
hollow sharp
solid blunt
internal curved
external flat
round
circular

Geometric Shapes

They are classified under two

categories:

Flat shapes
Solid shapes
 Bidimensional Shapes
The four basic flat shapes are circle,
triangle, square and rectangle.
It is round. It does not
have any corner points

It has three sides.

It has four equal sides.

It has four sides. Opposite

sides are equal.
PARTS OF A CIRCLE
 Polygon Parts

Types of Polygons
Polygon Formulae

Area Formulae
Area Formulae

Solid Shapes
 Faces

Consider a wooden box. A wooden

box is bounded by 6 rectangular
faces.

We know that rectangles are flat

shapes.

So, face is the flat part of the solid.

Edges

Consider the wooden box shown

above.

Each face meets with the other face

by a straight line.

So, the line where the two faces

join is called as edge.
 Vertices
The points of intersection of the edges
of the solid shapes are called vertices.

A Cube, for example, has 8 vertices.

A cube has

Number of faces: 6
Number of edges: 12
Number of vertices: 8