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How to Classify Quadrilaterals
In this how to classify quadrilaterals worksheet, 3rd graders choose words to describe 3 quadrilaterals and to complete 3 sentences about the shapes.
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Navajo Rug
Navajo art incorporates many fascinating shapes and designs. In this shapes lesson, students explore how shapes may be combined to create art and architecture. They also discover shapes in the world around them.
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TAKS 3rd Grade Daily Upkeep 2
In this TAKS worksheet, 4th graders identify the number of sides in a shape, discover a pattern, and find the sum of several numbers. Questions relate to objectives covered on the Texas state test. This would be good bell work.
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Ollie the Octopus Is Holding An Oval
In this ovals worksheet, students learn to recognize and draw ovals. Students trace three ovals and draw some on their own. Students analyze a row of shapes and color the ovals.
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Recognizing Three Dimensional Shapes
In this 3D shape worksheet, students review the names of 4 shapes on page one and color each shape a specific color to match the key on page two.
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Shape Puzzle-- Car
In this shape activity, students cut out 12 basic geometric shapes with patterns provided. Using these pieces, students look at a picture of a car and duplicate this design.
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Area of Polygons
Students engage in a lesson that is about the concept of polygons and focuses upon finding the area. They use formulas provided in the lesson in order to solve problems given by the teacher for independent practice. Geometric figures are...
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Using 2 and 3 Dimensional Geometric Shapes
Students explore geometry by participating in a shape identification activity. In this figure dimensions lesson, students identify the difference between 2 and 3 dimensional shapes by their vertices and faces. Students examine blocks in...
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More or Less
In this comparison worksheet, students count clip art pictures in 10 boxes. They circle the group that has less in each box. They see pictures of animals, geometric shapes, and birds.
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Geometric Shapes Maze
For this math worksheet, students learn to recognize the circle shape by following the correct path in a maze made up of geometric shapes. Students color only the circles to complete the maze.
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Transformations in the Coordinate Plane
Your learners connect the new concepts of transformations in the coordinate plane to their previous knowledge using the solid vocabulary development in this unit. Like a foreign language, mathematics has its own set of vocabulary terms...
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Fair Shares and Geometric Spirals
Students tackle the problem of how to divide a triangular piece of land fairly among four people. They decide whether their method of fair division always works or if it only works in special cases.
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Mayan Mathematics and Architecture
Take young scholars on a trip through history with this unit on the mathematics and architecture of the Mayan civilization. Starting with a introduction to their base twenty number system and the symbols they used, this eight-lesson unit...
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Problem Solving and the Coordinate Plane
Class members investigate rectangles on the coordinate plane. They determine the length of line segments in the coordinate plane with the same x-coordinate or same y-coordinate and then solve geometric problems involving perimeter and...
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Rugs
The class braids irrational numbers, Pythagoras, and perimeter together. The mini-assessment requires scholars to use irrational numbers and the Pythagorean Theorem to find perimeters of rugs. The rugs are rectangular, triangular,...
Noyce Foundation
Granny’s Balloon Trip
Take flight with a fun activity focused on graphing data on a coordinate plane. As learners study the data for Granny's hot-air balloon trip, including the time of day and the distance of the balloon from the ground, they practice...
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Anticipation Guide: Similar and Congruent
Find out what your mathematicians know about similar and congruent figures with this anticipatory guide that includes five agree or disagree with statements.
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Pyramids and Cones
Young mathematicians find the surface area and volume of a square pyramid and a cone. In what looks like a typical activity out of a textbook, you'll find an activity where learners find an unknown measurement of a pyramid or cone,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Lines of Symmetry for Circles
Further your instruction on geometrical symmetry with an investigation of circles. Fourth graders come to realize that the lines of symmetry of a circle are infinite.
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Algebra Magic
Abracadabra! Letters can be used in math to represent numbers with the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve problems! Math magicians will participate in an activity that uses a calculator and a bag...
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Perimeter of Common Geometric Figures
Help learners understand that perimeter and circumference are one in the same. Learners apply their skills to determine the perimeter/circumference of triangles, rectangles, and circles. They then use the same strategy to find the...
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Label the Shapes and Lines
In this geometric shapes and designs worksheet, students analyze 20 shapes and write the names underneath. Some are standard shapes and some may be unfamiliar. Students fill out a chart listing shapes with straight or curved lines.
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Identifying Shapes
In this shape identification worksheet, students identify shapes as circles, triangles, squares or rectangles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 1: Math in Motion
Second graders, through large screen monitor, study geometric design. They participate in a diagnostic assessment in which they use pnecils, scissors and paste.