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Better Lesson: Assessment of Triangles

For Teachers 1st Standards
What better way to get to know your students than with a 1:1 interview. Today you will interview each student on their knowledge of triangles and their ability to separate them from other shapes.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Well That's Different!

For Teachers 1st Standards
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
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Better Lesson: Student, Student, What Do You See?

For Teachers 1st Standards
Most bears are getting ready to hibernate this time of year. NOT IN MY ROOM! These little brown bears will be on the hunt for shapes they see.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Extra Practice Quiz Draw a Picture 1

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Use the problem solving strategy, draw a picture, to identify the characteristics described in the correct picture. Read the interactive quiz rules and then click on the "Begin" ticket. If you answer incorrectly you get one more chance...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Talking About Triangles

For Teachers 1st Standards
Let's talk about shapes baby. Let's talk about vertices. Leeettsss talk about all the things that triangles need to be, Oh let's talk abbbooouuut shapes! It's not Salt N Peppa but you can get your groove on with today's triangle talk.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: National Flags

For Students K - 1st
During the Olympic and Paralympic Games many national flags will be on display. This activity explores 2D shapes, angles and symmetries in the context of flag designs, and is designed to be accessible to primary pupils at Key Stage 2.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Looking at the Similarities and Differences

For Teachers 1st Standards
La, La, La, La, La, sing a happy song! You will be signing like a Smurf as students use their new founded knowledge of shape characteristics to participate in a whole group discussion and to successfully participate in geometric learning.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Pattern Recognition: Cyberchase Games

For Students K - 1st
Identify the patterns using addition, subtraction, and geometry to solve the puzzle and crack Hacker's code.
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PBS

Pbs: Count on It!: Blossom and Snappy Go Camping

For Students K - 1st Standards
Blossom and Snappy help Robbie prepare for her camping trip. They learn about dehydrated food and the amount of water she will need for the four days and four nights she will be away. They also learn how to pick the right spot at the...
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Other

Visnos: Polygons

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
Create regular and irregular polygons and determine the angles and side lengths with this interactive exercise. Use Safari or Chrome browser.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Sports Equipment

For Students K - 1st Standards
Sports such as hockey, football, basketball and tennis use balls of different sizes. Can you arrange a selection of different balls in a line each touching the next to make the shortest line? This activity offers opportunities for...
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abcteach

Abcteach: Math Posters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Most of the posters on this site are colorful math posters for primary or elementary school. However, there is one math poster that could be used in secondary school geometry class that has the formulas...
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Curated OER

Get Into Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Halves and Fourths

For Students K - 1st Standards
Practice dividing shapes into 2 or 4 equal sections. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
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Other

Interactive Pattern Blocks

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A colorful, engaging site where students can manipulate pattern blocks to create patterns or pictures. Included in the detailed directions are possible activities and a feature that allows you to email your patterns to a friend.
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Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Juegos De Matematicas

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Great elementary level math activities, organized by school grade. Activities are sometimes written in the form of teacher instructions, with pictures and examples. Others are written directly for students and can be done online or...
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Other

Design Build: Exploring the Fundamental Requirements of Structural Design [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this activity unit from the Science Teachers' Association of Ontario (STAO), students fold paper to explore the properties and shapes of materials that give structures their stability and strength. They record their ideas as they...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Equal Parts of Circles and Rectangles

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this exercise, students practice identifying equal parts of circles and rectangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints, watch a tutorial video, and try questions repeatedly.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Tynker Hour of Code: Trail Blazer

For Students K - 1st
Students apply geometry concepts to create patterns and shapes while they learn computer programming.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Rotational Symmetry

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a good site for elementary teachers to help educate students about symmetry by using pattern blocks. This link has multiple activities that the instructor could use including technological and standard activities.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Quilts

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Copy a quilt block made of 16 squares. Each block will have one of the four symmetry types: H, M, B, or S and you choose which you think it is.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Halves and Fourths

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this exercise, students practice identifying halves and fourths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Relative Position

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Decide if objects are above, below, beside, in front of, or behind other objects. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

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