Throwback Thursday Together With Math Activeness Thursday: Seeing Shapes

I'm dorsum amongst my MaTh action Th afterwards a intermission due to the quaternary of July concluding week.

For this week, I had an action to produce amongst fiddling ones--ages 4-7.

Seeing Shapes

Have your kid assist you lot direct maintain a photograph of an expanse inwards your identify or wherever you lot are... similar these

Then run into how many shapes you lot tin run into inwards your picture(s).

• How many circles are there?
• How many rectangles?
• How many squares?

If you lot wanted you lot could fifty-fifty impress out your pic as well as direct maintain them describe a describe of piece of job simply about the shapes equally they count them.

For children vi as well as vii they mightiness fifty-fifty live on able to produce a 3D cast scavenger hunt finding spheres, rectangular prisms, cubes, cylinders, as well as pyramids.

Remember that you lot tin link upward a math ship to this MaTh action Th at the bottom of this ship for the adjacent few days : ).

Thanks for Throwback Thursday that helped me mean value of today's MaTh action Thursday!  I had done this rectangle ship inwards the by as well as a few people said they actually enjoyed it.  It is to a greater extent than geared toward third through fifth graders.  Thank you lot Cara for hosting a fun linky party!

Here is my master copy ship from Apr of this year....

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Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rectangle is i of my favorite shapes--probably because they are everywhere!

• Draw a rectangle on graph paper.
• How many other shapes tin you lot describe within it?  A square, to a greater extent than rectangles, triangles, circles.
• What is the expanse within the rectangle?
• What is the perimeter measurement.
• Go into i room inwards your house.
• Estimate how many rectangles are inwards the room.
• Write or describe on a slice of newspaper how many things inwards the room are made of rectangles. (For representative a bookcase--and how many rectangles does it direct maintain inwards it--the shelves as well as the books)
• Is the room a rectangle?  Can you lot discovery the expanse of the room?

Can you lot discovery twenty rectangles simply about you lot inwards xxx seconds or less?  Hint: you're already staring at i reading this.

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