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Draw Shapes with Specified Attributes

Students draw polygons when given a specific number of sides or angles. Students demonstrate understanding that multiple shapes can satisfy the same attribute (e.g., many different quadrilaterals have 4 sides).

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Draw Shapes with Specified Attributes

Grade 2 · Shapes and Their Attributes · question 1 of 3

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12 rungs. A star at the top.

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Pick from the cards: five sides.

Which shape? Type its number.

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A shape is named by its sides and corners.

You can draw more than one shape with the same counts.

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Read it: Count sides, not tilt

A rectangle sits on the table. Someone turns it. Count the sides and the corners — not how it sits.

  1. Count the sides of the turned shape: 4.
  2. Count the corners: 4.
  3. Four sides and four corners: it is still a rectangle.

Tilting a shape changes how it looks, not how many sides it has.

The name comes from sides and corners, not from sitting flat on a side.

A rectangle standing on a corner still has 4 sides and 4 corners.

Count the sides and the corners. Turning does not change the name.

Calling a turned rectangle a diamond because it no longer sits flat.

Count the sides. Four sides and four corners is still a rectangle.

A flat shape is round. It has no sides and no corners. What is it called? — circle. Round, with no sides and no corners: that is a circle.

Draw a shape with 4 sides

Today we'll draw shapes by counting their sides.

Here's a challenge: draw a shape with four sides. Let's try a few!

First, look at this square.

Grade 2 · Many different shapes can have 4 sides

Let's count its sides. One, two, three, four. Yes — four sides!

Now look at this rectangle.

One, two, three, four. That's four sides too!

Here's a trapezoid — it looks different from the others.

One, two, three, four. Still four sides!

All three shapes look different — but each one has exactly four sides.

Any shape with four sides, like this one, is called a quadrilateral. Great job!

Now you try. Count every corner on this shape. How many corners?

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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.

Today’s goal
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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