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Kindergarten · Math · Unit 8 of 12

Shapes & Sizes

Shapes, big and small

What your child practices

Naming flat shapes and solid objects by one feature (sides, corners, rolls or not), and comparing things by size, height, length, weight and how much they hold.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) teks student expectation: K.6(A); K.6(D); K.7(B) · naming flat shapes and their attributes, and comparing objects by length and weight

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. A circle is round with no corners.
  2. A triangle has 3 sides.
  3. A square and a rectangle each have 4 sides.

Example: Which shape has 3 sides? Count the sides on each shape. The triangle has 3. Answer: The triangle

Shapes & Sizes in Texas

In the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), this is unit 8 of 12 in Kindergarten Math, after Count to 100 and before Build with Blocks.

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: Texas Education Agency (TEA)

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

    Does it roll? Sort them.

    Sort into: 🔄 Rolls · 🛑 Does not roll

    • 🍊orange
    • 📦box
    • 🧊ice cube
    • 🍅tomato
    • 🧱brick
    • 🥫can

  2. Question 2

    Which holds the least water?

    • ☕cup
    • 🛁bathtub
    • 🥄spoon

  3. Question 3

    Which shape is like this cookie?

    🍪
    • square
    • circle
    • rectangle

  4. Question 4

    Which shape has 4 sides that are all the same?

    • square
    • rectangle
    • triangle

  5. Question 5

    Which is the tallest?

    • 🐱cat
    • 🦒giraffe
    • 🧒child

  6. Question 6

    Which train is the shortest?

    • 🚂🚃
    • 🚂🚃🚃🚃
    • 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

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