Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
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Recognize two-dimensional shapes (e.g., circle, square, triangle, rectangle), regardless of orientation or size.
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Educational Games
Formative Assessments
Lesson Plans
Original Student Tutorials
Teaching Ideas
Video/Audio/Animations
Virtual Manipulatives
Student Resources
Original Student Tutorials
Learn to sort and identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in this carnival-themed interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Relative positions include up and down, top and bottom, over, on, and under, and above and below. Learn different types of up and down positions to rescue eight chicks in this farm-themed, interactive tutorial.
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Identify and name rectangles and squares based on their defining attributes, even if they have different sizes or positions. Join King Geo and his scout, Quad, as they search for rectangles and squares in this interactive tutorial.
This is part of a series on the defining attributes of shapes. Click the links below.
- "The Search for Shapes: Tracking Triangles"
- The Search for Shapes: Recognizing Rectangles and Squares"
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Help find hexagons based on their defining attributes for King Geo in this interactive tutorial. Learn what makes a hexagon a hexagon.
This is part of a series on the defining attributes of shapes. Click the links below.
- "The Search for Shapes: Tracking Triangles"
- "The Search for Shapes: Recognizing Rectangles and Squares"
- "The Search for Shapes: Exploring Hexagons"
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Track down triangles based on their defining attributes for King Geo in this interactive tutorial. Learn what makes a triangle a triangle.
This is part of a series on the defining attributes of shapes. Click the links below.
- "The Search for Shapes: Tracking Triangles"
- The Search for Shapes: Recognizing Rectangles and Squares"
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Educational Games
Score points by sorting 2D and 3D shapes into the correct basket as they fly by. Lose points if you answer incorrectly.
Type: Educational Game
Play the concentration game. Match the 2D shape to the correct name.
Type: Educational Game
Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
Parent Resources
Video/Audio/Animations
This upbeat music video reviews 3D shapes including the sphere, cylinder, cube, cone, and pyramid. As each 3D shape is presented, examples of things we see every day that have the same shape are also shown for reinforcement.
(Length: 3:02)
Type: Video/Audio/Animation
This video features a sing-along song about shapes. The first half of this song is for preschoolers: circle, triangle, rectangle, square. The second half is for primary grade students: oval, diamond, heart, crescent, rhombus, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, and octagon.
Type: Video/Audio/Animation
Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative