When teaching about 3D Shapes, the fun never ends! From my first year of teaching to now, I've realized that students love geometry and shapes. I think that this is because they enjoy creating and/or playing with actual shape models and it is a topic that is more concrete and tangible than most of the other abstract topics in math. In my class, my 3D shape center has more games and activities than other centers (because of the versatility of the topic). My students love them.
One of the games I created is this 3D Shape Memory Card Game to reinforce important facts about cubes, cuboids, spheres, cones, triangular based pyramids, rectangular based pyramids and triangular prisms. It helps students to identify these 3D shapes by their names, pictures, nets and real world examples. There are a total of 32 cards and they can also be used as flash cards. All you have to do is print, laminate and cut the cards out. Get it here at TpT or Teachers Notebook.
6 comments:
It's an awesome game Nyla, I love it!!! You are right children love to work with 3D shapes and love geometry. I personally hated it, but not until high school. I had a football coach for a teacher who didn't teach so I try to make geometry fun for children!
Thanks Brian! Don't be surprised if one third of the things I create are for geometry. I've always loved it - to the point that by the time I got into high school, I was the only girl in my Technical Drawing class. And it was my favorite subject. Those were the days...
That's awesome Nyla! Not many girls end up liking Math as they get older, you are one of a kind! You are making it fun for the children and that's how Math needs to be for them to like it and learn it!!!
Thank you Brian.
I love this idea. I will be sure and use it when we study 3-D shapes. I'm pinning right now!
Thanks Again,
Patti
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PS I'm now following your blog :)
Why didn't I find this a few weeks back? This would have been a great activity for my class. No problem. That's what centers are for. Thanks for sharing.
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