Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Spot the Shapes
A book about the shapes around us. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Cutting Corners
Students will use their knowledge of plane figure attributes to create and view shapes by cutting and rotating shapes to stimulate discussions on names and attributes of various shapes they do not regularly encounter.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Geoboard Activities
Math Forum provides a set of links to sites that are related to geoboard activities. There are several great links to lessons using geoboards. The links provide insight into how to use them, including how to perform various measurements...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Using Arrays to Model the Distributive Property
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are presented with a rectangular area model and asked to write an equation that represents the distributive property. Detailed lesson plan provided, along with assessment methods,...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Area of Rectangles: A More Efficient Way?
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will connect the concepts of counting each square unit and multiplying the side lengths to compute the area of a rectangle. They will extend this knowledge by computing a side...
Cuemath
Cuemath: Quadrilaterals
Explore the world of quadrilaterals and their properties. Find answers to questions like what are quadrilaterals, how they are formed, easy ways to identify them, and commonly seen quadrilaterals around us.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Skateboarding
In this video segment from Cyberchase, Bianca injures her ankle while skateboarding and is confined to her bed. She has trouble reaching a few objects from her bed until her friend gives her a device made up of collapsible...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Suzanne Alejandre: Algebraic Factoring
Use algebra tiles to explore factoring of polynomials.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Squares
MathWorld provides multiple definitions and formulas for the mathematical term, square.
Wolfram Research
Wolfram Math World: Rectangle
MathWorld provides the definition of a rectangle and the area formula of a rectangle.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Discovering Properties of Parallelograms, Kites & Trapazoids
This activity allows the teacher to cover the properties of a parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, square, kite, and trapezoid in two days (90 min. block scheduling) Using a group setting students discover these properties using the Cabri...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Is a Square a Special Case of Rectangle?
The definition of square can determine whether it is a special case of a rectangle. Using the Cabri Jr. application, students can get a feel for why its definition makes sense. Along the way, they get experience with perpendiculars,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Skate Off: Round One
In this Cyberchase video segment, the CyberSquad learns what happens to the area of a rectangle when the shape enclosed by the perimeter changes.
University of Texas at Austin
Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Pipe Cleaners
Pipe cleaners are used to create the perimeter of a rectangle in order to explore base and height.
The Math League
The Math League: Area and Perimeter
This tutorial provides a brief introduction about what area is, then gives the formulas for area of a square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid, triangle, and circle. Examples of each formula are provided.
The Math League
The Math League: Figures and Polygons
This site provides definitions of different types of polygons and figures.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Quad Squad
This interactive instructional activity investigates quadrilaterals and provides learners with an opportunity to practice describing their attributes.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this lesson engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number of diagonals...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 2.g Representing Half of a Rectangle
In this lesson plan, 2nd graders are to determine what half of a rectangle is.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 2
This task is a natural follow up for task Rectangle Perimeter 1. After thinking about and using one specific expression for the perimeter of a rectangle, they now extend their thinking to equivalent expressions for the same quantity....
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 1
This tasks gives a verbal description for computing the perimeter of a rectangle and asks the students to find an expression for this perimeter. They then have to use the expression to evaluate the perimeter for specific values of the...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ee Rectangle Perimeter 3
The purpose of this task is to ask young scholars to write expressions and to consider what it means for two expressions to be equivalent. Aligns with 6.EE.A.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.g Polygons in the Coordinate Plane
The purpose of this task is for students to practice plotting points in the coordinate plane and finding the areas of polygons. This task assumes that students already understand how to find areas of polygons by decomposing them into...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Scale Factor
The interactive applet allows learners to explore the relationships between side length, area, and perimeter. Students see how changes in the scale factor influence the ratio of areas and perimeters. [Requires Java.]