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What makes a hexagon a hexagon? How is it different from other polygons? This handy geometry resource with help your students to practice identifying the characteristics of a hexagon and comparing them to other two-dimensional shapes.

Worksheet

Characteristics of Hexagons

Worksheet

Characteristics of Hexagons

What makes a hexagon a hexagon? How is it different from other polygons? This handy geometry resource with help your students to practice identifying the characteristics of a hexagon and comparing them to other two-dimensional shapes.

Need a way to practice your kid's knowledge of shapes and units of measurement? This printable will get them laughing as they show off how much they know.

Need a way to practice your kid's knowledge of shapes and units of measurement? This printable will get them laughing as they show off how much they know.

Can your first graders tell the difference between a square and a cube? How about a triangle and a cone? Use this geometry assessment to gauge your students’ abilities to use attributes to sort 2-D and 3-D shapes.

Can your first graders tell the difference between a square and a cube? How about a triangle and a cone? Use this geometry assessment to gauge your students’ abilities to use attributes to sort 2-D and 3-D shapes.

This guided geometry lesson takes second graders on an exploration of 2D and 3D shapes. Kids will learn how to sort shapes, as well as partition them into halves, quarters and thirds. Tangrams are also featured within the exercise in order to give kids practical ways of practicing their new geometry skills. For more printable practice, try the geometry worksheets recommended by our curriculum advisors to accompany this lesson.

This guided geometry lesson takes second graders on an exploration of 2D and 3D shapes. Kids will learn how to sort shapes, as well as partition them into halves, quarters and thirds. Tangrams are also featured within the exercise in order to give kids practical ways of practicing their new geometry skills. For more printable practice, try the geometry worksheets recommended by our curriculum advisors to accompany this lesson.

Help your third-grader learn to recognize the identifying features of a polygon on this geometry worksheet.

Help your third-grader learn to recognize the identifying features of a polygon on this geometry worksheet.

Third Grade

Geometry

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Finish the Polygon Challenge

Worksheet

Finish the Polygon Challenge

Fourth Grade

Geometry

Brush up on the different types of polygons and what makes them unique!

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Finish the Polygon Challenge

Worksheet

Finish the Polygon Challenge

Brush up on the different types of polygons and what makes them unique!

Help your child learn to recognize scalene triangles with this worksheet.

Help your child learn to recognize scalene triangles with this worksheet.

Geometry meets data in this fun lesson! Students will build a design using pattern blocks and then graph the number of each shape used. This scaffolded EL lesson can be used alone or alongside Graphing Colored Counters.

Geometry meets data in this fun lesson! Students will build a design using pattern blocks and then graph the number of each shape used. This scaffolded EL lesson can be used alone or alongside Graphing Colored Counters.

First Grade

Geometry

Lesson Plan

Sort 2D and 3D Shapes

Interactive Worksheet

Sort 2D and 3D Shapes

Kindergarten

Geometry

Can your kid tell the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes? Kindergarten is a good time to start!

Interactive Worksheet

Sort 2D and 3D Shapes

Interactive Worksheet

Sort 2D and 3D Shapes

Can your kid tell the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes? Kindergarten is a good time to start!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Interactive Worksheet

This activity asks children to cut out geometric shapes and creatively place them on the page to create a work of art. They will become familiar with shapes like rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles while performing a creative task.

This activity asks children to cut out geometric shapes and creatively place them on the page to create a work of art. They will become familiar with shapes like rectangles, squares, triangles, and circles while performing a creative task.

Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!

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Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!

Second Grade

Geometry

Geometry is a core of mathematics in the early years. Help students recognize and draw shapes given specific attributes such as the number of corners and sides. This lesson can be a stand-alone activity of paired with 2-D Shapes!

Lesson Plan

EL

Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!

Lesson Plan

Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!

Geometry is a core of mathematics in the early years. Help students recognize and draw shapes given specific attributes such as the number of corners and sides. This lesson can be a stand-alone activity of paired with 2-D Shapes!

Second Grade

Geometry

Lesson Plan

Color and Make Your Own Tangrams

Worksheet

Color and Make Your Own Tangrams

Kindergarten

Geometry

Build reasoning and logic skills with a fun geometric shapes puzzle!

Worksheet

Color and Make Your Own Tangrams

Worksheet

Color and Make Your Own Tangrams

Build reasoning and logic skills with a fun geometric shapes puzzle!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Trapezoids Are Special

Lesson Plan

Trapezoids Are Special

First Grade

Geometry

Students will explore geometric shapes by creating a painting of a trapezoid.

Lesson Plan

Trapezoids Are Special

Lesson Plan

Trapezoids Are Special

Students will explore geometric shapes by creating a painting of a trapezoid.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Get spooky with shape practice this Halloween, and try a ghost ship tangram puzzle!

Get spooky with shape practice this Halloween, and try a ghost ship tangram puzzle!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Make a 100 Shapes Mural

Activity

Make a 100 Shapes Mural

Kindergarten

Numbers and Counting

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Activity

Make a 100 Shapes Mural

Activity

Make a 100 Shapes Mural

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

Can you spot symmetry in the wings of these butterflies? Give your kindergartners practice identifying shapes and patterns while learning about symmetry with this fun coloring worksheet!

Can you spot symmetry in the wings of these butterflies? Give your kindergartners practice identifying shapes and patterns while learning about symmetry with this fun coloring worksheet!

Help your students become familiar with all aspects of hexagons with this geometry activity! This worksheet gets your students thinking about the many attributes of this important 2-D shape.

Help your students become familiar with all aspects of hexagons with this geometry activity! This worksheet gets your students thinking about the many attributes of this important 2-D shape.

Fourth Grade

Geometry

Worksheet

Make a Match: Fractions

Worksheet

Make a Match: Fractions

Second Grade

Fractions

Match that fraction! This worksheet features a fun fraction match game.

Worksheet

Make a Match: Fractions

Worksheet

Make a Match: Fractions

Match that fraction! This worksheet features a fun fraction match game.

With this worksheet, your second graders will match a picture of a fraction to the correct math sentence.

With this worksheet, your second graders will match a picture of a fraction to the correct math sentence.

Second Grade

Fractions

Worksheet

Hidden Shapes Picture

Worksheet

Hidden Shapes Picture

Kindergarten

Geometry

Can you find the hidden shapes? Help this cute critter categorize all the crazy circles, squares and rectangles that are right beneath his nose.

Worksheet

Hidden Shapes Picture

Worksheet

Hidden Shapes Picture

Can you find the hidden shapes? Help this cute critter categorize all the crazy circles, squares and rectangles that are right beneath his nose.

Shapes are all around us. This may just look like a simple picture of a house on a pretty day, but it's full of shapes that your kindergartener can find.

Shapes are all around us. This may just look like a simple picture of a house on a pretty day, but it's full of shapes that your kindergartener can find.

Kindergarten

Numbers and Counting

Worksheet

Equilateral Triangles

Worksheet

Equilateral Triangles

Third Grade

Geometry

Help your child practice identifying equilateral triangles on this geometry worksheet.

Worksheet

Equilateral Triangles

Worksheet

Equilateral Triangles

Help your child practice identifying equilateral triangles on this geometry worksheet.

Third Grade

Geometry

Worksheet

2-D Shapes: Fill in the Table

Worksheet

2-D Shapes: Fill in the Table

Second Grade

Geometry

Is your child in need of a geometry review? This worksheet covers the basic 2-D shapes, from circles and triangles to pentagons and hexagons.

Worksheet

2-D Shapes: Fill in the Table

Worksheet

2-D Shapes: Fill in the Table

Is your child in need of a geometry review? This worksheet covers the basic 2-D shapes, from circles and triangles to pentagons and hexagons.

See if your child can find all the triangles hidden on this geometry worksheet.

See if your child can find all the triangles hidden on this geometry worksheet.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Second Grade

Fractions

Activity

Shape Challenge: Crossing Guard

Worksheet

Shape Challenge: Crossing Guard

Kindergarten

Geometry

Give your kindergartener some shapes practice with this colorful scene of a girl getting a helping hand from a crossing guard.

Worksheet

Shape Challenge: Crossing Guard

Worksheet

Shape Challenge: Crossing Guard

Give your kindergartener some shapes practice with this colorful scene of a girl getting a helping hand from a crossing guard.

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Naming Quadrilaterals

Worksheet

Naming Quadrilaterals

Third Grade

Geometry

Help your third-grader learn to recognize quadrilaterals with this geometry worksheet.

Worksheet

Naming Quadrilaterals

Worksheet

Naming Quadrilaterals

Help your third-grader learn to recognize quadrilaterals with this geometry worksheet.

Third Grade

Geometry

Worksheet

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