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Related Activities to Try at Home

Dear Family,

The activities below are related to the mathematics in the geometry unit Make a Shape, Fill a Hexagon. Doing them at home together with your child can enrich your child's mathematical learning.

Shape Hunt Shapes are everywhere. Talk with your child about the shapes you see every day. Together, you can look at everything from the shapes of buildings in your neighborhood to the shapes of boxes and cans in the supermarket. Sometimes you can include descriptions of shapes in what you say. For example, “Look at that part of the building shaped like a trapezoid.” At other times, you can ask your child to look for specific shapes: “See how many things you can find that are triangles, while we walk down the street.”

Making Shapes Making shapes is a great way to learn about them. At home, your child might use clay, drinking straws, or a loop of yarn or rope to make different shapes.

A rope formed into a triangle and a rectangle made with 4 straws and clay connecting them at each corner.

Ask your child, “Can you make a shape with three sides?

… Do you know what that shape is called?” Or, you can make different shapes and ask your child to name and describe them.


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Table of Contents

Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Counting People, Sorting Buttons Unit 2 Counting Quantities, Comparing Lengths Unit 3 Make a Shape, Fill a Hexagon Unit 4 Collect, Count, and Measure Unit 5 Build a Block, Build a Wall Unit 6 How Many Now? Unit 7 How Many Noses? How Many Eyes? Unit 8 Ten Frames and Teen Numbers