The document discusses different common shapes such as squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. It provides examples of where these shapes can be found in everyday objects like flowers, buildings, and natural structures. It asks the reader questions about identifying shapes in pictures.

1. Geometry in
Everyday Things

2. Some common shapes
You see these shapes in many places.
A square has four
equal sides and four
A triangle has right angles.
three sides.
A rectangle has four
sides and four right
angles. A circle has a
center point and
an outer
circumference.

3. More shapes
A pentagon has A hexagon has
five sides. six sides.
An octagon has
eight sides.

4. What shape do you see in this trillium flower?
Square
Triangle
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5. What shape are most of the stones in this
structure?
Rectangle
Square
Hexagon
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6. Draw the shape of these paving stones.
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7. What shape does a sand dollar remind you of?
Circle
Triangle
Pentagon
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8. Draw the shape that you see most in this picture.
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Discuss: If you were flying above a pyramid,
looking down at it, what shape would the base of
the pyramid form?

9. What shape does a honeycomb cell resemble?
Triangle
Pentagon
Hexagon
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10. Match the picture to the shape that is most like it.
Stop sign
Pentagon
Circle
Petunias
Planet Jupiter
Octagon
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11. Does a snowflake resemble a hexagon?
Hexagon Snowflakes
Yes
No
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