Math Action Thursday: 3D Shapes

Sorry I'm then belatedly on posting this activeness for Thursday, only experience costless to link upwards for the adjacent distich of days.

From yesterday I asked the question, 'How tin yous instruct math amongst a bowl of blueberries?'  No i answered, only I bet a few of yous were thinking most it.  Here are ideas yous could practice amongst that bowl of blueberries...

• Chart how they gustation (sour, firm, squishy, etc.)
• Count upwards every bit yous swallow them.
• Do skip counting every bit yous swallow them.
• Divide them into groups to figure out how many their are.

Okay, right away on to MaTh activeness Thursday!

Today I'm doing three-dimensional (3D) shapes.  Is it e'er likewise early on to instruct your kids 3D shapes?  I don't intend so, only I'd dear to listen what yous think.  I am working on a board mass that has these shapes inwards it, then I decided to brand them (ideally the mass would come upwards amongst blocks, only I made them out of an empty cereal box).

The exclusively i I couldn't brand out of a cereal box was the sphere.  I got a ping pong ball instead.  Then I decided to brand a holder for the shapes amongst names to label the shapes...

Kids tin bring fun amongst 3D shapes discussing the sides, angles, curves, too aspects of each shape.  I had fun making these too hopefully yous tin bring fun exploring 3D shapes amongst your kids too.  There was a peachy website I institute that had many to a greater extent than ways to make polyhedra out of paper that was fun.

What's your favorite 3D shape?

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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#Math Activeness Thursday Alongside 3D Shapes! Addition Google's Accept Your Kids To Live Twenty-Four Hr Menses : )

Happy Thursday! Sorry to postal service this slow today...  Enjoy today's Math action Thursday!
I was super busy today because it was National Take Your Children to function twenty-four hr catamenia at the Google LA office. My married adult man is lucky to function there, as well as thence nosotros larn every year, precisely this twelvemonth was particular because I got to travel a presenter!

I wasn't allowed to larn whatever photos amongst kids inwards it precisely nosotros had a super fun fourth dimension working amongst The Pancake Menu as well as play money. So much that when nosotros got dwelling my piddling kids nonetheless wanted to play as well as brand pancakes amongst the leftover batter I had...

  And I decided to larn a piddling fleck creative as well as brand an interesting flower...

I'd dearest to listen what you lot mean value of the 3D cast video! Take help : )