#GEOMETRY VOCAB FREE#

After watching him design a bicycle wheel with spokes, we talked about names for the following elements of his design: The back of the board is set up for circles.

triangle (right / equilateral / isosceles / scalene).We came up with the following list of shapes (and talked about how some shapes fit in more than one of the following categories): I asked him if he knew the names for the shapes he was making as he designed things, we talked about the vocabulary that described each shape. Superman got really into it, making all kinds of shapes, then building shapes inside shapes. *By “geoboard,” I am referring to the common math manipulative with pegs on a board used most commonly for creating shapes with rubber bands, not the trademarked term “GeoBoard” used in the construction industry. This time I gave them a pile of rubber bands and a blank geoboard and let them play. You can read more about that here, as well as access a printable that I created to go along with our learning adventures: Combinations of 5 and 10. We have a whole stash of “math toys” that come with the workbooks provided by RightStart Mathematics, and I’ve been introducing them to my kids slowly, giving them a chance to play around with them and discover how they work, as well as begin to discover some basic math concepts.Įarlier I wrote about our big “aha moments” when I introduced the balance scale. See my disclosure and privacy policy for more information.

#GEOMETRY VOCAB FREE#

I’ve created a free set of Geometry vocab flashcards (see link further down in this article) and am working on a lapbook project to teach several fundamental Geometry skills through the use of a Geoboard.* As a former high-school Geometry teacher, I was happy to see my own kids interact so enthusiastically with hands-on math concepts. I recently pulled out a geoboard for my kids to play with, and was pleasantly surprised with the depth of content we covered through (lightly-directed) playful discovery.