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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 13 of 13

Build & Draw Shapes

Make things with shapes

What your child practices

Using shapes to draw and build the things around us (a door is a rectangle, a ball is a sphere), and putting small shapes together to make bigger ones, like two squares making a rectangle.

New York State Learning Standards learning standard: NY-K.G.5; NY-K.G.6 · modeling objects by building and drawing shapes, and putting simple shapes together to make larger shapes

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Look at a thing. Which shape is it like? A door is a rectangle.
  2. Small shapes fit together to make big shapes.
  3. Two squares side by side make a rectangle.

Example: Which 2 shapes make a house: walls and a roof? The walls are a square. The roof is a triangle. Answer: A square and a triangle

Build & Draw Shapes in New York

In the New York State Learning Standards, this is unit 13 of 13 in Kindergarten Math, after Pennies & Dimes.

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: New York State Education Department (NYSED)

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

    Which 2 shapes can make a house: a box with a roof?

    • a circle and an oval
    • a square and a triangle
    • two circles

  2. Question 2

    2 trapezoid blocks fit together. What can they make?

    • a circle
    • a square
    • a hexagon

  3. Question 3

    How many sticks do you need to make a hexagon?

    • 8
    • 6
    • 5
    • 4

  4. Question 4

    You build a triangle from sticks. How many sticks?

    • 6
    • 3
    • 5
    • 2

  5. Question 5

    How many sticks do you need to make a triangle?

    • 3
    • 5
    • 4
    • 2

  6. Question 6

    How many small squares make a big square 3 wide and 3 tall?

    • 3
    • 6
    • 9
    • 10

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