Teaching Resource
Let's Sort It! - 2-D Shapes and 3-D Figures Sorting Activity
A sorting game to use in the classroom when identifying the properties of 2-D shapes and 3-D figures.
Use this teaching resource as a math center activity to help students identify and compare 2-D shapes and 3D objects.
Individually or in small groups, students sort the cards into two groups, 2-D shapes and 3-D figures. Once the cards have been sorted, students then match the pictures with their names.
Print a class set of cards on cardstock for added durability, and store in a ziplock bag.
This resource includes the following shapes:
- hexagon
- trapezoid
- oval
- kite
- parallelogram
- rhombus
- square
- triangle
- circle
- rectangle
- pentagon
- octagon
- cube
- cylinder
- triangular prism
- square-based pyramid
- hexagonal prism
- triangular-based pyramid
- sphere
- cone
- rectangular prism.
Three blank cards have also been included to add more shapes as a class.
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Common Core Curriculum alignment
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.G.A.1
Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.G.A.1
Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangl...
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.G.A.2
Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines, or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size. Recognize right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.G.B.3
Understand that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category. For example, all rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have four right angles.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.G.B.4
Classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties.
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