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1st grade · Math · Unit 7 of 14

Shapes

Flat shapes and solid shapes

What your child practices

Naming and comparing 2D shapes by their sides and corners, and 3D objects by their faces and whether they roll or stack.

Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards benchmark: 1.2.4.1; 1.2.4.2 · describing the attributes of shapes and putting shapes together to make new shapes

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Flat shapes have sides and corners.
  2. Solid shapes can roll, stack or slide.
  3. A sphere rolls every way, like a ball.

Example: Which solid shape rolls every way, like a ball? A cube has flat sides, so it slides. Only a sphere rolls every way. Answer: A sphere

Shapes in Minnesota

In the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards, this is unit 7 of 14 in 1st grade Math, after Measuring and before Data & Graphs.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Minnesota Department of Education (MDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is this shape called?

    • circle
    • triangle
    • rectangle

  2. Question 2

    How many sides does this shape have?

    • 8
    • 5
    • 3

  3. Question 3

    Does it roll? Sort them.

    Sort into: 🔄 Rolls · ✋ Does not roll

    • 🧱brick
    • 🍊orange
    • 🏀basketball
    • 📕book
    • 🎾tennis ball
    • 🎁gift

  4. Question 4

    A drum is shaped like a…

    🥁
    • cube
    • cone
    • cylinder

  5. Question 5

    How is a triangle different from a square?

    • A triangle has 3 sides
    • A triangle is round
    • A triangle has 4 sides

  6. Question 6

    How many corners does this shape have?

    • 3
    • 2
    • 4

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