Shape Up for Shapes!

And figures....and angles :)

We are just finishing up our pre-assessments to find out what we remember from Grade 4 about shapes and figures.  We hope to be done by the end of the week and then move into our unit on Geometric Relationships and Properties.  We hope to spend about 4 weeks learning about this topic.  Here are our learning goals for the unit:

I will…

·                     Talk about the difference between polygons, regular polygons and other two-dimensional shapes;

·                     Talk about the difference between prisms, right prisms, and other three-dimensional figures;

·                     Use nets to identify pyramids and prisms;

·                     Create nets of different prisms and pyramids;

·                     Identify, classify, measure and construct different types of angles;

·                     Identify and sort triangles based on their angle and side properties;

·                     Construct different types of triangles using an angle and a side length;

 

Here are some websites that may help you learn at home:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/index.html

http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=U122

I also suggest cutting apart empty boxes to see what the nets look like and then tape them together to create new nets and sketch those nets.  If you do this, bring it into school so we can see!

 

Stay Warm!

Ms. Pike :)