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Build with shapes: Kindergarten math

Build and compose shapes. A free kindergarten lesson plan, a question set with answers and a printable sheet with its key. Copy it and make it yours.

Lesson plan

Goal

  • Students can do this: build and compose shapes.

Teach (10 min)

  • Two squares side by side make a rectangle.
  • Six triangles around a point make a hexagon.
  • Work one example on the board while students say each step aloud, then do one together.

Practise (15 min)

  • Students work the printable sheet in pairs, then alone.
  • Or practise it as a game with no sign-up: https://peabody.kids/math/geom.compose?lesson=k-geom-build-1&at=K

Exit ticket (5 min)

  • Use the first three questions on the printable sheet as a slip.

Printable sheet

Name: ____________________   Date: ____________

Build with shapes (Kindergarten)

  1. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  2. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  3. Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
  4. Four squares are put together, two on top and two on the bottom. What bigger shape do they make?
  5. Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
  6. Four squares are put together, two on top and two on the bottom. What bigger shape do they make?
  7. Two cubes of the same size are stacked, one on top of the other. What solid shape do they make?
  8. Two cubes of the same size are stacked, one on top of the other. What solid shape do they make?
  9. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  10. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  11. Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
  12. Six triangles that are all the same are put together around one point. What bigger shape do they make?
Key
  1. square
  2. square
  3. rectangle
  4. square
  5. rectangle
  6. square
  7. rectangular prism
  8. rectangular prism
  9. square
  10. square
  11. rectangle
  12. hexagon

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