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Exploring Polygons and The Greedy Triangle
Excellent activity! Anne Linehane's geometry story, The Greedy Triangle, offers an opportunity to practice forming various types of polygons with your learners. Using elastic bands (or Chinese jump ropes),...
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Writing Takes Shape!
Students read The Greedy Triangle and discuss geometric solids. In this geometry lesson, students list the geo-solids in the world and create a graphic organizer to show where geo-solids exist.
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Classifying Geometric Figures
Fourth graders recognize and classify geometric figures. In this geometry instructional activity, 4th graders read the books Shape Up and The Greedy Triangle and prepare a short report on the shapes mentioned in the text. Students...
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Human Geometry Book
Students investigate geometric shapes. In this geometry lesson, students read the book The Greedy Triangle and define the shapes mentioned in the book. Students make the shapes by using their bodies.
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Polygons, Parallelograms, Quadrilaterals- Oh My!!!
Students demonstrate their comprehension of shapes and their properties. They work in small groups. Students review the following terms: property, polygon, quadrilateral, and parallelogram. They read Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and...
Just Books Read Aloud
Just Books Read Aloud: Marilyn Burns and Gordon Silveria: The Greedy Triangle
A video of the book "The Greedy Triangle", written by Marilyn Burns and Gordon Silveria. Just Books Read Aloud is a site that includes children's books read aloud by normal (but enthusiastic) readers.