Math

We continue to work on geometry concepts in math. Students are naming and identifying plane and 3-D shapes. They are continuing to learn how these shapes can be composed and decomposed.


Here are some specific skills the students are working on:

identify shapes based on their defining attributes.
build shapes with defining attributes.
draw shapes with defining attributes.
sort shapes by their defining attributes.
recognize when an attribute is non-defining.
use two or more 2-D shapes to create new shapes (e.g., put triangles together to make a rhombus or a hexagon).
use two or more 3-D shapes to create new shapes (e.g., combine two right triangular prisms to create a right rectangular prism).
make new shapes from composite shapes.
recognize what shapes are used to make composite shapes.
partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares.
describe equal shares as halves, fourths, or quarters.
use the phrases half of, fourth of, or quarter of.