Common Core: Geometry
As set out by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) in the Common Core State Standards Initiative. For more information, please visit the Geometry domain at the Common Core State Standards website.
Series: Book Ideas
Using Photobooks for Data Analysis
February 27, 2013
Tana Hoban and Ann Morris are both gifted children’s book authors who combine minimal text with wonderful photos that beg to be pored over again and again. Many of them are organized around ideas that call for mathematizing.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Shoes, Books, Tana Hoban, Ann Morris, Shapes Shapes Shapes, Cubes Cones Cylinders & Spheres, Shoes Shoes Shoes, Bread Bread Bread
Series: Focus on the Child February 24, 2013
Recognizing Shapes with Child 10
A child identifies two-dimensional shapes.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Gesture, Child 10
Series: Focus on the Child February 18, 2013
Visual and Spatial Memory with Child 22
A student uses blocks to recreate arrangements of shapes.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 22
Series: Focus on the Child February 18, 2013
Describing Relative Location of Objects with Child 22
A student gives and receives orders about where to put a stuffed animal.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, Child 22
Series: Book Ideas, Ideas at Work February 18, 2013
Exploring Geometry with The Secret Birthday Message
Sharon Hogan and her preschool class at Peterson School had all kinds of fun with the way Eric Carle’s The Secret Birthday Message plays with the two main faces of geometry—shapes and spatial sense.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags English Language Learner, Mapping, Books, Eric Carle, The Secret Birthday Message
Series: Focus on the Child February 15, 2013
Recognizing Shapes with Child 11
A child identifies triangles on a page of shapes.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 11
Series: Focus on the Child February 14, 2013
Recognizing Shapes with Child 13
A child describes examples (and non-examples) of common 2-D shapes.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 13
Series: Hear from the Experts February 13, 2013
Spatial Reasoning Connected to Other Math Areas
Children who have strong spatial reasoning abilities also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems, researchers at the University of Chicago say. For more information about this…
- Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Focus on the Child February 13, 2013
Composing Shapes with Child 15
A child builds structures using magnetic blocks.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Child 15
Series: Focus on the Lesson January 15, 2013
Feel for Shapes
In this geometry activity for pre-k and kindergarten, students distinguish shapes using touch rather than sight.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Play, Books
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