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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes at Work
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to look for shapes in both the natural and designed world; to investigate ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's in a Shape?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsThe purpose of this lesson, from Science NetLinks, is to explore characteristics of shapes by making and using tangram sets. Stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGeometric Understanding Through Tangram Puzzles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this two-lesson unit from Illuminations, students use tangram pieces to fill in a picture's outline and form given polygons. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTangram Puzzles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this Illuminations lesson, one of a two-part unit, students choose a picture and use all seven tangram pieces to fill in the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTangram Challenges
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use tangram pieces to form given polygons. Describing figu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Can You Build with Triangles?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students explore ways of building different basic shapes from trian...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Do You Build Triangles?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students investigate basic properties of triangles. They then inves...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI've Seen That Shape Before
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: MathematicsIn this lesson, from Illuminations, students learn the names and explore properties of solid geometric shapes. In a variety of a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to Geometry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Geometry, MathematicsThese lessons are designed to guide young children through an introduction to geometry. Children will learn to recognize shapes ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTangrams
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis set of activities, from the Math Forum at Drexel University, uses tangrams to compute the area of polygons without formulas...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCommunity Geometry
Grades: 3 to 7Subjects: Types of Media, Mathematics, Geometry, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 2 additional..This Web page from PBS TeacherSource Mathline describes activities to help students recognize geometric shapes and designs in th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroduction to Symmetry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis Math Forum resource features five activities designed to guide young children through an introduction to symmetry using a p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSphinx - An Example of Richness
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryIn this math challenge, students engage in creating similar polygons to the sphinx polygon by combining a specified number of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTesselations, Wow!
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Music, Mathematics, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies and 3 additional..This lesson, from PBS TeacherSource, introduces students to the concept of tessellations through the use of a variety of modalit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVarnelle's Primary Math - Introduction to Geometry
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThese activities from Math Forum, reviewed for grades PreK-2 by Illuminations, are set up as a unit in introductory geometry. Wi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis is part one of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that demonstrates the potential fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Challenges
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, GeometryThis is part two of a two-part E-example from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics that demonstrates the potential fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatch Tool
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis student interactive from Illuminations allows students to create patches like those used in quilting. Triangles, squares, p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShape Tool
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 8Subjects: Mathematics, Geometry, Measurement & Geometry, Data Analysis, Statistics, and ProbabilityThis student interactive from Illuminations can be used to create various polygons. Shapes can be manipulated in a variety of wa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0