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Grade 1 · Math · Unit 8 of 9

Shapes

Flat shapes and solid shapes

What your child practises

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

New Brunswick Curriculum skill descriptor: Shape and Space: 2-D Shapes and 3-D Objects · comparing 2-D shapes and 3-D objects

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practise.

  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

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

    How is a circle different from a square?

    • A circle has no corners
    • A circle has more corners
    • A circle has 4 sides

  2. Question 2

    A drum is shaped like a…

    🥁
    • cylinder
    • sphere
    • cone

  3. Question 3

    Which shape has more sides?

    • triangle
    • hexagon

  4. Question 4

    Does it roll? Sort them.

    Sort into: 🔄 Rolls · ✋ Does not roll

    • 🧱brick
    • ⚽soccer ball
    • 📦box
    • 🎾tennis ball
    • 🎁gift
    • 🍊orange

  5. Question 5

    How many corners does this shape have?

    • 2
    • 0
    • 4

  6. Question 6

    What is this shape called?

    • hexagon
    • rectangle
    • triangle

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