Monograph No. 11 (Mislabeled)
Making Math Make Sense in the Primary Classroom
February 2000
Publication of the Mathematics Council of The Alberta Teachers’ Association
Editor A. Craig Loewen
49 – 53
Activities for Shape & Space Strand – Three-Dimensional & Two-Dimensional Shapes
Explore faces, vertices and edges of 3-D objects.
Identify, name and describe specific 3-D objects as cubes, spheres, cones, cylinders, pyramids.
Build a skeleton of a 3-D object, and describe how the skeleton relates to the object.
Build and re-arrange a pattern using a set of 2-D shapes.
Match and make identical (congruent) 2-D shapes.