The document discusses teaching elementary school students about geometry and shapes. It provides links to resources for shape sorting activities and interactive games to help students identify circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles and graph the shapes they see at recess. The goal is to make learning geometry fun while also helping students develop skills in explaining and proving their thinking about shapes and answers.

1. Meaningful Math
-Learning Foundational Geometry-
Kylie Hickson Grade 1 Mathematics
December 4, 2019 Math for Primary Grades, Fall 2019
Monica Cavender

2. Shapes are Fun!

3. Advice for Teachers
http://www.therecoveringtraditionalist.com/geometry-for-elementary-students/
“...get kids drawing, and get them explaining and proving their thinking.”
“It’s not just about building their math minds, guys, it’s about just common
things that we need kids to be able to do in life, right. Not just proving why
they’re right about an answer in mathematics, but proving why they think
something is correct out there in life.”
-Christina Tondevold

4. Shape Sort
Green Shapes 4 Sides

5. Smart Exchange
https://exchange.smarttech.com/preview/aa7de9d4-77a4-45ae-b225-6d020e7e5e42
Interactive Activity-
● Identify circles, squares,
rectangles, and triangles
among common objects!

6. Kahoot!
https://create.kahoot.it/details
/qualities-of-shapes/55999b5
1-a1a0-4d9b-afb6-26ba467a
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Let’s
Play!!!

7. Pear Deck Graph
Graph the things you found at recess that look like
these shapes:

8. Mini Reflection
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