[Annie8180]

First year in Third Gr., LOVE IT, any hints on how to get them to learn the different shapes, hexagon, quadrilaterals, etc. octogon is easy(octopus)...

Thanks!

[AmyH]

Play I have, Who has?
I've attached the template that I got from this site.

[mgf91280]

Here are a few things I tell my students:

Hexagon - has the letter "x" in it, just like the word "six". If they can remember the letter "x", they can remember a hexagon has six sides.

For quadrilaterals: We talked a lot about the prefix "qua-"
* 4 QUArters in a dollar
* 4 babies are QUAdruplets
* 4 QUArts in a gallon
* 1/4 is also called "one quarter"
* Cuatro/Cuarto (four/fourth in Spanish) sound like the word "quarter" (I have a lot of Hispanic students).

For specific quadrilaterals, like trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses, etc I don't have any special tricks. I'm curious to know if anyone else has any to share!

[dtrabilsy]

the book The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns. As I read the book they made the shapes on the Geo Boards. The kids had great fun!!!

Pentagon-5 sides, like you hold a PEN with 5 fingers

octogon-change the first o to 8, by adding another circle under it, so you have 8ctogon.

use TAB to find faces-Top + Around + Bottom = total faces

[ellenalesa]

how do you play I have you have?

Do you pass out manipulatives of the different shapes?

Thanks.