Building with 3-D Shapes
Compose three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, right circular cylinders) and create composite shapes; build new shapes from component shapes
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Can your child combine 3-D shapes — like stacking cubes and cylinders — to build a new composite solid?
Compose three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, right circular cylinders) and create composite shapes; build new shapes from component shapes
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- Stack cubes and prisms to build towers or structures
- Combine 3-D shapes to make a new solid (e.g. cone on top of cylinder)
- Describe a composite 3-D shape in terms of its component shapes
“Can your child combine 3-D shapes — like stacking cubes and cylinders — to build a new composite solid?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Domain
- Geometry
- Age range
- Ages 6–7
Standards