Building & Drawing Shapes
Model shapes by building from components (e.g. sticks and clay balls) and by drawing
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Shapes can be built and drawn. A rectangle needs four straight sides and four corners. First we build it, then we draw what we built.
Spend about 15 minutes building a rectangle with sticks and clay, then drawing it.
Build a triangle, draw a rectangle and construct a cube framework from components.
Build a triangle, draw a rectangle and construct a cube framework from components.
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- Build a triangle from three sticks and three clay balls
- Draw a recognisable rectangle
- Construct a cube from straws and connectors
“Can your child build or draw a shape they've been shown — for example, making a cube from folded paper or copying a triangle onto dot paper?”
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- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Geometry
- Age range
- Ages 5–6
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