Using the Shapes Song, students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition. The Shapes Song by Have Fun Teaching is a song that teaches the shapes. Shapes have names their made of angles and lines, there are flat shapes and solid shapes we see them all the…
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Using the Square Song (MP3), students learn all about squares, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
A 3rd grade Finding Quadrilaterals Worksheet where students count sides, color the four-sided shapes, match quadrilateral names to their attributes, and explain their thinking. Answer key included for fast, no-prep geometry practice.
These shapes flash cards help PreK to 3rd grade students name 18 flat and solid shapes with fold-over self-check cards, a practice page, and an answer key included.
Using the Shape Songs (MP3 Album), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
This drawing quadrilaterals worksheet has 3rd graders construct a square, rectangle, rhombus, and trapezoid on dot grids, then explain their thinking. Answer key included for fast, no-prep geometry practice.
This polygons worksheet asks 3rd graders to label six figures polygon or not a polygon, name four polygons from a word bank, and explain their reasoning. Answer key included for quick, no-prep geometry practice.
This perimeter worksheet helps 3rd graders count units around grid figures, add labeled side lengths, and solve a real fence problem. An answer key is included for fast, no-prep geometry practice.
This symmetry worksheet gives 3rd grade students hands-on practice drawing lines of symmetry, completing symmetrical grid pictures, and explaining their thinking. Answer key included for fast, no-prep geometry practice.
Using the Shape Song (MP3), students learn all about shapes, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Triangle Song (MP3), students learn all about triangles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Circle Song (MP3), students learn all about circles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
A Smarter Balanced (CAASPP / SBAC) 3rd grade math practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 37 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
Using the Parallelogram Song (MP3), students learn all about parallelograms, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Students use the Find the Polygons Shapes Worksheet to circle true polygons, name them by side count, and explain their thinking. Built for 3rd grade, with a complete answer key for fast, no-prep geometry practice.
Using the Polygon Song (MP3), students learn all about polygons, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
Using the Rectangle Song (MP3), students learn all about rectangles, including Shape Names and Shape Recognition through a catchy song!
A NJSLA-A 3rd grade math practice test workbook for teachers, with a pretest, skill practice for all 33 standards, mixed review and 2 full-length practice tests. Answer key included, so test prep is ready to go.
This geometric shapes crossword puzzle worksheet asks 3rd graders to name seven flat shapes from clues about sides, corners and angles. An answer key is included, so geometry vocabulary practice takes no prep at all.
Four sides, lots of names
Third graders move beyond naming shapes to sorting them by their attributes: number of sides, angles and parallel sides. The big focus is quadrilaterals, any shape with four sides. Kids learn that squares, rectangles, rhombuses and trapezoids all belong to that family, and that a square is a special rectangle and a special rhombus. They also split shapes into equal parts and connect that to fractions. The click moment is when a child argues, correctly, that a square really is a rectangle!
Third grade geometry is about looking closely and sorting carefully. These moves build that habit.
Play the Polygon Song, then hold up shapes and ask "Polygon or not?" A circle? No, it's curved. A triangle? Yes, closed with straight sides. The song gives kids the rule, and the quick checks make them use it.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withPolygon Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Challenge kids: "Draw a quadrilateral that is not a rectangle, square or rhombus." The answers (trapezoids, kites, wonky four-siders) spark great talk about what makes each special shape special.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withDrawing Quadrilaterals WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash a shape card and ask for two attributes, not just the name: "four sides, two pairs of parallel sides." Kids who can describe a shape really know it, and this is how test questions ask.
Why it works: researchers who compared ten study methods found practice testing is one of the two that work best (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withShapes Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Shapes are everywhere. Send kids hunting!
WorksheetsKids search the room for four-sided shapes and sort what they find into a class chart.
Open Finding Quadrilaterals Worksheet →
WorksheetsSolve clues about sides, angles and shape names. Partners can race each other.
Open Geometric Shapes Crossword Puzzle →
WorksheetsKids draw half a shape, fold the paper, and see if their line of symmetry works.
Open Symmetry Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Shapes Song, Circle Cut Outs and Square Song (MP3).
Third graders work with polygons and especially quadrilaterals: squares, rectangles, rhombuses, trapezoids and parallelograms. They sort shapes by sides and angles and split shapes into equal parts.
Yes! A rectangle has four sides and four right angles, and a square has both. A square is a special rectangle with all sides equal.
A quadrilateral is any closed shape with four straight sides. Squares, rectangles, rhombuses, trapezoids and kites are all quadrilaterals.
Go on a shape walk and name the quadrilaterals you see in windows, signs and tiles. Ask your child to tell you what makes each one that shape.
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