Teach your students how to classify tricky quadrilaterals using the hands-on lessons, activities, and games in Classify It! This ready-to-use resource from Laura Candler includes a lesson, a sorting activity, a challenging (but fun!) math game, and two quizzes that will help your students master quadrilateral classification!
Learn how to teach quadrilaterals conceptually rather than having your students memorize the names of shapes. Tips for teaching quadrilaterals are included! Implement in your 4th grade or 5th grade math class today!
This little story about quadrilaterals helps students remember the family tree and the properties of quadrilaterals in high school geometry. I like to tell this story as part of the lesson when I'm teaching classifying quadrilaterals. After the notes, I play a game or do an activity.
Work on describing quadrilaterals and identifying them too with your class. Here is a free printable bingo game to describe quadrilaterals.
Teach your students how to classify tricky quadrilaterals using the hands-on lessons, activities, and games in Classify It! This ready-to-use resource from Laura Candler includes a lesson, a sorting activity, a challenging (but fun!) math game, and two quizzes that will help your students master quadrilateral classification!
Learn how to teach quadrilaterals conceptually rather than having your students memorize the names of shapes. Tips for teaching quadrilaterals are included! Implement in your 4th grade or 5th grade math class today!
Help your students understand the different characteristics and rules of quadrilaterals with this FREE quadrilateral bingo game.
Come learn about 4-sided hapes at Camp Quadrilaterals. Compare sides and angles of parallelograms, rhombus, rectangles, trapezoids, & squares.
Today was just one of those "GREAT" teaching days. I had so much planned for my students and I really wanted them to conquer the properties of parallelograms. I used two different types of colored paper (purple and lime green) to make my flipbook because I want students to see the relationship between parallelograms, rectangles, rhombi, and squares. This worked out great because I didn't even tell the students that they all had properties in common, they asked me if they were related because they were in the "same color." :) I started with the vocabulary page first because many of my students accommodations include "front-load vocabulary". Frontloading vocabulary is powerful for my special education & ELL students because I can help them learn the meaning of new words and strengthen their independent skills for constructing meaning from text. After the vocabulary section, I started with the five properties of parallelograms. I pulled out my whiteboards and had students make 3 columns (Property, Picture, and how to solve). This turned out better than expected because all of my students referenced their whiteboards throughout the entire class. After we made this chart, we started on the three parallelogram example problems. I told them they have 3 minutes to discuss with their group which property we are going to use to solve each example. There were some great discussions going on and I overheard students using the vocabulary we just went over. In the previous years, I had students just say "it's property 4 because the angles are not across from each other." Today, I heard "we are going to use property 4 because consecutive angles are always supplementary". (insert proud teacher face here). After three minutes were up, I called on each group to tell me what property we are going to use to solve the problem and that they had to walk me through how to set the equation up. I did this for every example and it made the lesson "student-centered" since the students had total control of the classroom! My co-teacher likes to color code the angles to help students solve for missing angles. For example, he likes to color a pair of opposite angles in blue and the other pair in pink. This helps many students to determine whether they are equal because "same colors are equal" and "different colors are supplementary." After the notes, I had students work on the following Parallelograms Maze (which they LOVED). Directions: Every student will start at problem A and solve the problem. When they solve the problem, they will take the solution and plug it into B's empty box. They will repeat this process until they are finished with all of the problems. I walk around and check students work because if they mess up on a problem, it will make their whole worksheet incorrect. By creating this worksheet, students definitely asked more questions than usual just to make sure that they are not doing a lot of work to get the whole paper wrong. I did have students write down which property they used for every problem. Overall it was a great day! I love it when students have questions and when they use important geometry vocabulary in their conversations :) Tomorrow we have a Parallelograms Quiz and I'm very excited to see how they do. UPDATE TO POST: I have started making YouTube Videos with Google Form Assessments in the description if you would like to use! Here are the resources I used today: 1) Flipbook: CLICK HERE 2) Parallelograms Maze: CLICK HERE 3) YouTube Video - Given Two Sides
Help your upper elementary students master classifying polygons with math foldables! They'll have a ton of fun AND learn a lot!
Need a fun, simple, and effective way to teach students to classify quadrilaterals? This collaborative activity is perfect for 4th grade!
Geometry for 3rd graders lends itself to hands-on, engaging learning. There are my favorite activities for teaching third grade geometry.
This little story about quadrilaterals helps students remember the family tree and the properties of quadrilaterals in high school geometry. I like to tell this story as part of the lesson when I'm teaching classifying quadrilaterals. After the notes, I play a game or do an activity.
Quadrilateral hierarchy (family tree) explained with flowchart
We’ve been focused on all things geometry in the Applicious Classroom these past few weeks! After weeks of test prep and then actual testing, it’s nice to have finally returned to “normal” curriculum and infuse fun back into our block! Our curriculum outlines that students should be able to distinguish between different quadrilaterals based on […]
This little story about quadrilaterals helps students remember the family tree and the properties of quadrilaterals in high school geometry. I like to tell this story as part of the lesson when I'm teaching classifying quadrilaterals. After the notes, I play a game or do an activity.
Geometry can be a lot of fun OR it can be really confusing. This post shares 10 ways to review attributes of geometric shapes to make it fun!
2D Shape Activity. Quadrilateral and Geometry Lesson A fun craft math activity that students can use to learn about the features of quadrilateral / 2D shapes. They will make their own animal out of four sided shapes. There is a tally chart included to record results This pack includes: - Lesson Plan and Background Knowledge - Find the Shape - Tallly Sheet - Craft / Math Sheet Students will have a blast doing this and learn about 2D shape at the same time. If you like this you will also love these: Shape Posters(2D and 3D)
Read more about the 5 amazing geometry flip books for 3rd-grade math and how to use them in your 3rd-grade and 4th-grade math classroom.
How to teach classifying polygons and quadrilaterals for upper elementary math students. Resources and differentiation tips included.
