Content Area: Math

 

Index: 4.2A Grade 3 CPI 2

 

Standard: 4.2 - Geometry and Measurement

 

Strand: A - Geometric Properties

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 2 -   The student will use properties of standard three-dimensional and two-dimensional shapes to identify, classify, and describe them.

·        Vertex, edge, face, side, angle

·        3D figures – cube, rectangular prism, sphere, cone, cylinder, and pyramid

·        2D figures – square, rectangle, circle, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon

 

Grade: 3

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        Students look for a "Shape of the Day" throughout the school day, recording the number of times that the shape is seen.

 

·        Students look for lines in the classroom, identifying pairs of lines that are parallel, that intersect, or that are perpendicular.

 

·        Students use the computer language Logo to describe the path made by a turtle as it goes around different geometric shapes.

 

Kidspiration Activities:

 

·        Rectangles and Triangles

·        Shapes

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