Grade 3 Problem Solving Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Composing Two-Dimensional Shapes Resources

Pattern Block Puzzles

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Pattern Block Puzzles

Kindergarten

Geometry

Shape up those problem solving skills with a fun block puzzle activity, comparable to tangram puzzles!

Worksheet

Pattern Block Puzzles

Worksheet

Pattern Block Puzzles

Shape up those problem solving skills with a fun block puzzle activity, comparable to tangram puzzles!

First grade geometry covers basic shapes, as well as an introduction to 3D shapes. Our team of curriculum experts designed the following guided lesson, which provides an overview of first grade geometric concepts and gives kids lots of opportunities for practice. If your child needs more support in a different format, check out the suggested first grade geometry worksheets.

First grade geometry covers basic shapes, as well as an introduction to 3D shapes. Our team of curriculum experts designed the following guided lesson, which provides an overview of first grade geometric concepts and gives kids lots of opportunities for practice. If your child needs more support in a different format, check out the suggested first grade geometry worksheets.

First Grade

Fractions

Guided Lesson

Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle

Lesson Plan

Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle

Kindergarten

Geometry

How do you build spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills while doing something that is fun? With tangrams! In honor of Chinese New Year, this lesson introduces your students to the Chinese puzzle of tangrams.

Lesson Plan

Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle

Lesson Plan

Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle

How do you build spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills while doing something that is fun? With tangrams! In honor of Chinese New Year, this lesson introduces your students to the Chinese puzzle of tangrams.

What does one semicircle, two parallelograms, three triangles and a rectangle add up to?

What does one semicircle, two parallelograms, three triangles and a rectangle add up to?

Can your kindergartener arrange the shapes to make a truck? Let her practice her shapes with this colorful and hands-on math game.

Can your kindergartener arrange the shapes to make a truck? Let her practice her shapes with this colorful and hands-on math game.

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Easy Tangrams Puzzle #3

Worksheet

Easy Tangrams Puzzle #3

Kindergarten

Geometry

Can your child re-create this picture? Tangram is a great way to build basic geometry skills, as well as hone your little one's sense of logic!

Worksheet

Easy Tangrams Puzzle #3

Worksheet

Easy Tangrams Puzzle #3

Can your child re-create this picture? Tangram is a great way to build basic geometry skills, as well as hone your little one's sense of logic!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Matching Shapes: 3D to 2D

Worksheet

Matching Shapes: 3D to 2D

First Grade

Geometry

Help your child practice his spatial perception with this printable worksheet, which asks him to translate three dimensional shapes into two dimensions.

Worksheet

Matching Shapes: 3D to 2D

Worksheet

Matching Shapes: 3D to 2D

Help your child practice his spatial perception with this printable worksheet, which asks him to translate three dimensional shapes into two dimensions.

First Grade

Geometry

Worksheet

Super Shapes: 3-D Shape Drawing

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Super Shapes: 3-D Shape Drawing

Kindergarten

Geometry

Boost geometry knowledge and enhance creativity with this fun math worksheet.

Worksheet

Super Shapes: 3-D Shape Drawing

Worksheet

Super Shapes: 3-D Shape Drawing

Boost geometry knowledge and enhance creativity with this fun math worksheet.

Try your hand at tangrams with this kindergarten and first-grade worksheet!

Try your hand at tangrams with this kindergarten and first-grade worksheet!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Make a 100 Shapes Mural

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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.

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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.

Explore shapes with this spooky Halloween spider tangram! Use the seven tangram shapes to fit into this silhouette.

Explore shapes with this spooky Halloween spider tangram! Use the seven tangram shapes to fit into this silhouette.

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Haunted House Tangram

Worksheet

Haunted House Tangram

Kindergarten

Geometry

Here's a Halloween twist on a classic shape activity! Try building this haunted house using the seven tangram shapes.

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Haunted House Tangram

Worksheet

Haunted House Tangram

Here's a Halloween twist on a classic shape activity! Try building this haunted house using the seven tangram shapes.

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

Shapes in Pictures: Outer Space

Worksheet

Shapes in Pictures: Outer Space

First Grade

Geometry

Spark your first grader's excitement for geometry with a little outer space shape practice. Can he count all the shapes in this space scene?

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Shapes in Pictures: Outer Space

Worksheet

Shapes in Pictures: Outer Space

Spark your first grader's excitement for geometry with a little outer space shape practice. Can he count all the shapes in this space scene?

Here's a geometry challenge for your first grader that puts his counting skills to work: can he count the number of sides each shape has?

Here's a geometry challenge for your first grader that puts his counting skills to work: can he count the number of sides each shape has?

First Grade

Geometry

Worksheet

Find the Shape: Triangles

Worksheet

Find the Shape: Triangles

Kindergarten

Numbers and Counting

All of these pictures are hiding some sneaky triangles. Can your kindergartener find them all in this colorful worksheet?

Worksheet

Find the Shape: Triangles

Worksheet

Find the Shape: Triangles

All of these pictures are hiding some sneaky triangles. Can your kindergartener find them all in this colorful worksheet?

This hands-on shapes worksheet is a fun way to introduce children to early geometry concepts and terms.

This hands-on shapes worksheet is a fun way to introduce children to early geometry concepts and terms.

Look all around! We can find 2D shapes inside 3D shapes wherever we go! In this lesson, students will sort shapes and recognize the 2D components of common 3D shapes.

Look all around! We can find 2D shapes inside 3D shapes wherever we go! In this lesson, students will sort shapes and recognize the 2D components of common 3D shapes.

Almost everything is made up of common shapes your kid is sure to recognize. Here's a worksheet that asks him to use shapes to make pictures of real things.

Almost everything is made up of common shapes your kid is sure to recognize. Here's a worksheet that asks him to use shapes to make pictures of real things.

First Grade

Geometry

Worksheet

Craft a Simple Stick Sled

Activity

Craft a Simple Stick Sled

Pre-K

Geometry

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

Activity

Craft a Simple Stick Sled

Activity

Craft a Simple Stick Sled

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

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.

Second Grade

Fractions

Guided Lesson

Shape Art: Mix Art with Geometry!

Activity

Shape Art: Mix Art with Geometry!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

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Shape Art: Mix Art with Geometry!

Activity

Shape Art: Mix Art with Geometry!

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

Develop a deeper understanding of how shapes fit together to form a hexagon.

Develop a deeper understanding of how shapes fit together to form a hexagon.

Develop a deeper understanding of how shapes fit together to form a hexagon.

Develop a deeper understanding of how shapes fit together to form a hexagon.

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

Kindergarten

Geometry

Activity

Looking at Shapes: Open or Closed?

Worksheet

Looking at Shapes: Open or Closed?

First Grade

Geometry

Kids sometimes don't distinguish between a shape that's open and one that's closed. Here, kids can see the difference as they classify shapes as open or closed.

Worksheet

Looking at Shapes: Open or Closed?

Worksheet

Looking at Shapes: Open or Closed?

Kids sometimes don't distinguish between a shape that's open and one that's closed. Here, kids can see the difference as they classify shapes as open or closed.

Children will take note of the everyday shapes that surround them in this fun geometry activity.

Children will take note of the everyday shapes that surround them in this fun geometry activity.

Kindergarten

Geometry

Worksheet

Color and Make Your Own Tangrams

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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

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Valentine's Day Painting

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Valentine's Day Painting

Third Grade

Geometry

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

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Valentine's Day Painting

Activity

Valentine's Day Painting

This heart print makes the perfect simple and sweet gift for Valentine's Day!

Students will love composing and decomposing two-dimensional shapes using tangram puzzle pieces. Use this plan alone or to frontload key vocabulary and concepts taught in the lesson plan Know Your Shapes.

Students will love composing and decomposing two-dimensional shapes using tangram puzzle pieces. Use this plan alone or to frontload key vocabulary and concepts taught in the lesson plan Know Your Shapes.

First Grade

Geometry

Lesson Plan

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Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Composing Two-Dimensional Shapes Resources for 'grade 3 problem solving'