Standard #: MAFS.K.G.2.4 (Archived Standard)


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Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/“corners”) and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).


General Information

Subject Area: Mathematics
Grade: K
Domain-Subdomain: Geometry
Cluster: Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes. (Supporting Cluster) -

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.

Date Adopted or Revised: 02/14
Content Complexity Rating: Level 3: Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived

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Related Resources

Educational Game

Name Description
Shape & Solid Exploration In this game, learners use clues to identify mystery shapes. Use everyday objects (like from the pantry) as the shapes. It is important for learners to be able to describe a shape with correct math vocabulary and to be able to visualize a shape in their head.

Formative Assessments

Name Description
How Are These Shapes Alike?

Students compare and contrast two shapes based on their attributes.

Cubes and Prisms

Students compare a cube to a rectangular prism and discuss the similarities and differences.

Compare Rectangles and Triangles

Students compare a triangle to a rectangle based on attributes of these figures.

Compare Hexagons

Students compare two hexagons and describe how they are alike and how they are different.

Lesson Plans

Name Description
Creating Shapes in Our World

In this lesson, students will work with 3-Dimensional shapes identifying attributes of the shapes and recreating them. Students will create, identify and describe 3-Dimensional shapes as part of the assessment process.

Eating Shapes (Exploring 3D Shapes)

This lesson is an introduction to 3-dimensional shapes. The lessons uses food to help students explore the attributes of those shapes. Then, of course, the students get to eat them!

Hide and Seek those Shapes

In this lesson, students will discover the names of different two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes and their attributes through activities such as playing "Hide and Seek" with shapes and playing "Hot and Cold" to find shapes in the classroom.

What am I? (An Exploration of 3D Shapes)

Students work together to build and identify three-dimensional shapes and their attributes.

Shape Up!

In this lesson students will compare two-dimensional shapes to other two- dimensional shapes (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle) and three-dimensional shapes to other three-dimensional shapes (cone, cylinder, sphere, cube) by differentiating them according to attributes. Students describe attributes of shapes by exploring real world objects.

3D Shape Shifters

This is a hands-on lesson that introduces and allows students to identify and build three-dimensional figures including rectangular prisms, square pyramids, and cubes. The students will also gain an understanding of what a vertex is, and how many vertices a given shape has.

Going On a Shape Hunt: Integrating Math and Literacy

Integrating mathematics and literacy allows students to develop an understanding of the place of mathematics in their world. Students are introduced to the idea of shapes through a read-aloud session with an appropriate book. They then use models to learn the names of shapes, work together and individually to locate shapes in their real-world environment, practice spelling out the names of shapes they locate, and reflect in writing on the process. This lesson provides opportunities to engage students using many different learning modalities.

Original Student Tutorials

Name Description
Sorting Shapes

Learn to sort and identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in this carnival-themed interactive tutorial.

The Search for Shapes: Recognizing Rectangles and Squares

Identify and name rectangles and squares based on their defining attributes, even if they have different sizes or positions. Join King Geo and his scout, Quad, as they search for rectangles and squares in this interactive tutorial. 

This is part of a series on the defining attributes of shapes. Click the links below.

Briana's Shape Playground

Learn how to identify the similarities and differences in the number of sides of two-dimensional shapes in this interactive tutorial.

Teaching Ideas

Name Description
String Shapes In this activity, learners work together to make polygons with string. Learners explore making different kinds of triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons. Through teacher-led questioning and discussion, students can analyze and compare two dimensional shapes in different sizes and orientations, as well as similarities, differences, and attributes. (Please note: the understanding of concave & convex polygons are not part of kindergarten geometry standards.)
Shape Hunt

To give students opportunities to recognize, describe, build, and explore shapes in many different contexts.

Virtual Manipulative

Name Description
Shape Tool

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.

Student Resources

Original Student Tutorials

Name Description
Sorting Shapes:

Learn to sort and identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in this carnival-themed interactive tutorial.

The Search for Shapes: Recognizing Rectangles and Squares:

Identify and name rectangles and squares based on their defining attributes, even if they have different sizes or positions. Join King Geo and his scout, Quad, as they search for rectangles and squares in this interactive tutorial. 

This is part of a series on the defining attributes of shapes. Click the links below.

Briana's Shape Playground:

Learn how to identify the similarities and differences in the number of sides of two-dimensional shapes in this interactive tutorial.

Virtual Manipulative

Name Description
Shape Tool:

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.



Parent Resources

Virtual Manipulative

Name Description
Shape Tool:

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.



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