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Students explore the basic geometric shapes and geometric shape vocabulary through the use of geoboards and virtual geoboards. They create a variety of shapes with a partner, build ten different rectangles on their geoboards, and discuss patterns identified in the data.

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geoboards, geometric shapes, shapes

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3rd - 6th
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Math
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