Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
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Students join small squares together to compose a larger square and then justify the new shape.
Original Student Tutorials Mathematics - Grades K-5
Learn to combine simple shapes to compose larger shapes with Robbie the Robot in this interactive tutorial.
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Original Student Tutorial
Learn to combine simple shapes to compose larger shapes with Robbie the Robot in this interactive tutorial.
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Virtual Manipulatives
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows you to create patches and more complex figures using the provided 2-dimensional geometric shapes.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows students to draw geometric shapes and then decompose and recompose them into other shapes, using slides, turns, and flips to cut and move pieces around.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
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Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative