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Draw and build shapes

Students will model real-world shapes by drawing 2D shapes (circles, triangles, squares, rectangles) and building 3D shapes from materials (clay, blocks, or connecting pieces). They use shape components to create the target shape.

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Draw and build shapes

Kindergarten · Analyzing and Building Shapes · question 1 of 3

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12 rungs. A star at the top.

Luis lays sticks around the magnet. How many sticks?

Look at the shape.

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A quadrilateral has four straight sides.

The sides meet at corners.

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Read it: Sticks make a shape

3 sticks. Join the ends. You get a triangle.

  1. Count the sticks: 3.
  2. Join them end to end.
  3. Count the corners: 3.

Each stick is 1 side of the shape you build.

A corner is where the ends of 2 sticks meet.

So 3 sticks make 3 sides and 3 corners: a triangle.

1 stick for each side. A corner where 2 sticks meet.

Counting 2 corners and missing the one at the bottom.

Touch each place where 2 sticks meet. There are 3.

Build a square from sticks. How many sticks? — 4. A square has 4 sides, and each stick is 1 side. So it takes 4 sticks.

Build a square with 4 sticks

Look at this square. Today we're going to build one!

Kindergarten · Make a square from four equal sticks

A square has four sides — and every side is the same length.

So we need four sticks, all the same size. Let's count them: one, two, three, four.

First, lay one stick down. This is the bottom.

Next, stand a stick up on the left side.

Now stand another stick up on the right side.

Finally, lay the last stick across the top.

Let's count the corners: one, two, three, four. Four corners and four equal sides!

You built a square. Now you can draw one with a pencil too. Great work!

Now you try. Count this shape's corners. How many corners are there?

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While they climb, your page writes one true line to ask about tonight, and a short note each Sunday.

MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics
Did you know?

A chessboard has 64 squares — share them out between the 8 rows and each row holds exactly 8.

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1 star — one skill mastered, every rung of its ladder climbed
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Divide within 100

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MayaGrade 3 · Mathematics

Maya earned 2 stars this week — Interpret multiplication as equal groups, which took 6 answers over 3 days before its star landed 3 days ago and Multiply by 6, 7, 8 and 9. Next up: Divide within 100.

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