[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice classifying various two dimensional shapes as rectangles, squares, circles or triangles.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are asked to match a given shape with those that are equivalent or the same type. Includes video demonstrating a sample problem...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to classify a real-world object as a circle, triangle, square or rectangle. The video is followed by additional practice problems.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine which shape is made of only straight lines. The video is followed by a series of practice questions to assess student...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video discusses a brief overview of circles, rectangles, squares, and triangles and helps students determine which shape is shown and why. The video is followed...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and take an assessment on finding missing angles in a polygon.

Based on building a hexagon, this activity from the Math Forum collection focuses on using different combinations of pattern blocks to create a hexagon. An online activity, pencil and paper method, literature connections, and a...

In this two-day lesson plan, students will collaborate to create a healthy pizza using only geometric items that have been precisely measured. Students must identify the items as triangle, quadrilateral (parallelogram), or cube. Next,...

Learn about 2D shapes and temperature with King Toot.

Kyan is an African villager. Can you help him name and define different parts of shapes?

Abeni works at the pyramids. Visit her and find out more about circles and triangles.

At the Food Market there are a lot of shapes. Help Afia find and name the shapes.

Can you help Wally the wizard practice some of his tricks while you learn about symmetry and 2D shapes?

This site provides a definition for plane figure (at the top of the page) and a few examples.

In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.

In this activity, students will explore the properties of rotations and the relationships between the original and image figures.

So, you're interested in becoming a civil engineer, builder, or landscaper? Then you'll need to sharpen your skills in measuring slope. Try this math challenge where you will discover how to measure the steepness of an incline.

Discover how the geometric shape of an object directly relates to its usefullness in this math challenge from the NCTM Math Challenges for Families collection. A one page activity that you can print or download.

Use this rhyming description of Max's Fantastical Zoo to make some amazing animals from geometric shapes. There is a teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.

Step by step, this video lesson [4:34] will show you how to add up the number of squares that cover an object in order to find the area of a figure. It is 4 of 7 in the series titled "Finding Area with Squares."...

This article describes a new approach to teaching children more than just memorizing a formula to find area and hope they don't confuse it with perimeter. This approach involves a project with real life situations....

This website has basic definitions for most polygons, regular and irregular.

Use Glencoe's Math Course 2 randomly generated self-checking quiz to test your knowledge of polygons and tessellations. Each question has a "Hint" link to help. Choose the correct answer for each problem. At the bottom of the page click...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice counting sides and vertices in various two dimensional shapes.