Illustrative Mathematics
Alike or Different Game
How are a circle and triangle alike? How are they different? These are the types of questions children will answer while playing this fun geometry game. Including a variety of conventional and unconventional shapes, this activity allows...
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Match the Shapes
Which shape is the same? Young geometers match a triangle, circle, rectangle, and square to their identical counterparts, connecting them with a line from left to right. Then, they do the same thing with a set of four circular shapes,...
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Forming New Shapes from Old Shapes
Shapes can be joined together to make new shapes! Young geometers experience this phenomenon as they examine four shape challenges in this worksheet. Scholars create a rectangle from two right triangles and a fish from an oval and a...
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Geometry
What a fun activity for younger learners! Using this resource, they can discuss the attributes of squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and ovals, and also engage in a motivating activity. For those learning about simple shapes, this...
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Recognize and Draw Shapes
What type of shape is this? Learners practice identifying shape attributes as they name a parallelogram and an oval and count the sides of a cube and a triangle. There are multiple-choice answers for the shape-name questions, so...
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Recognizing Shapes
What are these shapes? Learners examine pairs of six familiar shapes: circle, oval, triangle, hexagon, square, and rectangle. Each pair is placed together because of a common attribute, which is described above. Learners name the shapes...
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Quick Recognizing Shapes Guide
Although there isn't anything for kids to complete in this shapes handout, they can use it as a guide for drawing shapes and recognizing their attributes. There are eight shapes described here: circle, oval, triangle, rectangle, square,...
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Recognize and Draw Shapes
Each of these 10 shapes comes with a question for learners to answer as they analyze its attributes. They examine the following shapes: hexagon, trapezoid, pentagon, circle, diamond, parallelogram, rectangle, triangle, cube, and oval....
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Recognize and Draw Shapes- Matching Worksheet
Explore some of the lesser-known shapes in this matching activity: oval, trapezoid, parallelogram, cross, and hexagon. Learners examine a set of the shapes and match them to a list of names. It may be confusing for some to figure out...
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Morning Math
Good morning, math scholars! There are 10 warm-ups here to get your class recalling past concepts and staying sharp on newer ones. Skills include writing an even and odd number sequence, subtracting money amounts, dividing shapes in...
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Label the Shape Worksheet
Kindergartners demonstrate their ability to identify seven different shapes by labeling each of the 28 examples on the worksheet. Learners must be able to identify rectangles, diamonds, squares, ovals, triangles, circles, and pentagons.
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Geometry Scavenger Hunt
Students hunt for hidden geometric shapes and compare the properties of various shapes. In this geometry lesson, students play a game of finding squares, circles, rectangles, and ovals that have been hidden around the classroom. Students...
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Recognize Rectangles
In this shape identification worksheet, students are shown a page of different shapes and they are to colour all of the rectangles on the page.
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Intermediate Matching -- Shapes
Students match the following 10 shapes by drawing a line from their names to their pictures: circle, square, rectangle, cylinder, cube, sphere, oval, triangle, octagon and hexagon. This geometry worksheet provides excellent practice for...
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Shapes
In this geometry activity, students choose the correct name to match the shape given. Students identify the words for oval, rectangle, square, circle, triangle, and diamond.
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Shape, Color, and Number Match
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students solve and complete 8 different problems that include matching numbers, shapes, and colors. First, they use the guide at the top of the sheet to match the number to the correct color. Then,...
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Math and Numbers - Basic Shapes
In this basic shapes learning exercise, students view labeled pictures of a circle, square, triangle, rectangle and oval. They are not asked to do anything with these shapes.
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Which One Does Not Belong?
In this mathematics worksheet, students circle the shape in each group that is different. there are six different groups to identify on the sheet.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Fantastical Zoo
Use this rhyming description of Max's Fantastical Zoo to make some amazing animals from geometric shapes. There is a teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Shapes
This resource provides a practice geometry quiz for students to use.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Perimeter of an Oval
What seemingly ought to be straghtforward is not always the case. Dr. Math, in reply to a class question, points this out when discussing how to find the perimeter of an ellipse. Some links to websites that help with the computation are...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Shape
This online dictionary of art from Artlex provides terms is a valuable tool. Shape is on the Sg-Sh page. Just scroll down to Shape and read a definition with links to other important terms.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: What Shape Is This? (Part 2)
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of identifying shapes. Immediate feedback is given.
Expansion Learning
Expansion Learning: Math Activity: Select the Shape (Part 2)
Activity provides students the practice they need to master the skill of identifying shapes. Immediate feedback is given.