K-5 Math Teaching Resources
Pattern Blocks
Who needs to buy pattern blocks when you have this printable pattern block template? Including triangles, squares, trapezoids, rhombuses, and hexagons, this resource offers endless possibilities for teaching children about geometric shapes.
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Shapes
Students differentiate objects based on contrast in physical characteristics such as color, texture, size and shape. They also recognize and sort objects by color families.
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Four Color Map
Students explore geometry by completing a color puzzle. In this shape identification lesson, students utilize deductive reasoning to complete a Google SketchUp puzzle with trapezoid, triangles and rectangular shapes. Students...
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Pattern Recognition
In this pattern recognition worksheet, students determine which shape comes next in nine strips of shapes and then draw that shape on the line provided.
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Word Shapes for Word Wall Words
For this word shapes worksheet, students observe terms on a word wall, write the words with letters in separate boxes, color letter boxes to show word shape, and write the complete words. Students complete four word shapes.
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Color By the Shapes
In this coloring shapes worksheet, students analyze a picture made up of different geometric shapes. Students color the picture according to the key that tells what color each shape should be.
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Word Recognition
For this word recognition worksheet, students read words in a word bank, observe letter shapes, and write the words in the appropriate number and shape boxes. Students write eight words.
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Tangram Cutout
Challenge the spatial thinking of your young mathematicians with this printable tangram puzzle. Using different sized triangles, squares, and parallelograms, children must figure out how to fit all the shapes together to create a square.
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Find the Pictures
There are hidden pictures here, but scholars must find the rhyming words to uncover them. They follow directions by coloring in only the shapes that rhyme with a given sound. Although the pictures aren't that well hidden, this puts a fun...
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I Know My Colors
How well does your beginning Spanish class know their colors? Give them this quick coloring worksheet to find out. Each shape is paired with a color (in Spanish), and youngsters must color the shape with its corresponding color. A fun...
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Putting It All Together
Learners examine a painting. In this shapes and puzzle lesson, students view Guston's painting Blue Water and identify the colors, shapes and recognizable forms. Learners work in groups to put together puzzle pieces of the...
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Dotted Lines And Shapes
In this dotted lines and shapes worksheet, students trace each of nine different dotted lined shapes and then color in each shape with a different color.
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Shape-ly Sculptures
Students learn about numbers and letters with these tasty bread sculptures. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop fine-motor skills as well a shape, number, and letter recognition cooking up bread.
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Shape Collage Pizza
Students identify shapes. In this geometry instructional activity, students cut out various shapes and create a "Shape Collage Pizza." Students glue their shapes onto a pizza template.
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Recognizing Shapes
In this shape recognition instructional activity, students complete 6 multiple choice problems, identifying shapes, telling what things are shaped like and which objects are specifically named shapes.
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Color the Christmas Adjectives
'Tis the season to be joyful, merry, beautiful, and red! Test young learners' knowledge of parts of speech with a festive coloring worksheet. As they identify which words are nouns and which words are adjectives, they color each part of...
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Coloring Shapes
In this recognizing a square, ovals, rectangle, and triangle worksheet, students observe boxes containing various shapes and follow the directions to identify and color each specific shape. Students color 8 shapes.
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Recognize the Shapes
In this 3D shapes worksheet, students color the 3D shapes according to the directions given. Students color 12 3D shapes total.
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Word Recognition (Shapes)
In this word recognition learning exercise, students read words and match them to pictures of things having to do with shapes. Students complete 4 matches.
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Shape Makers
Classify and explore shapes by giving learners opportunities to handle, describe and classify 2D and 3D shapes. Primary learners will sort objects such as triangles, squares, oblongs, circles, ovals, pentagons, hexagons, diamonds, boxes,...
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Different Shapes
In this shapes worksheet, students color all the big shapes blue, the middle sized shapes yellow and the small sized shapes red. Then they cut out all the shapes and sort them from big to small.
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Color The Shapes In The Shape House
In this color the shapes in the shape house worksheet, learners utilize the primary colors red, blue, green and yellow to color the shape house as directed.
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Extend Patterns
For this shape patterns worksheet, learners analyze the shapes for the patterns. Students then draw the item that is most likely to come next in the pattern.
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Crayon Shapes
Students create an Easter Basket stuffer. In this holiday art lesson, students melt crayons together over a small cooking pot and pour the melted crayons into a candy mold. Students let them dry and are able to color with the...