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Build with shapes

Two squares side by side make a rectangle. Six triangles around a point make a hexagon.

Worked example

Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
Answer: rectangle
Fit the pieces together. The outside edge has 4 sides, so it is a rectangle.

For grown-ups: Build and compose shapes. Below: three problems to try with the worked answers, and a free printable sheet. Children can practise the same skill as a game, with no sign-up and no ads.

  • CCSS K.G.B.5–6
  • CCSS 1.G.A.2
What this practises, for teachers

Practices build and compose shapes (K.G.B.5–6, 1.G.A.2). A printable sheet with its answer key, worked answers on the page, no accounts.

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🖨️ Printable sheet and key

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Try three

  1. Four squares are put together, two on top and two on the bottom. What bigger shape do they make?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: square
    Fit the pieces together. The outside edge has 4 sides, so it is a square.
  2. Three squares are put in a row. What bigger shape do they make?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: rectangle
    Fit the pieces together. The outside edge has 4 sides, so it is a rectangle.
  3. Six triangles that are all the same are put together around one point. What bigger shape do they make?
    Show the answer and how
    Answer: hexagon
    Fit the pieces together. The outside edge has 6 sides, so it is a hexagon.

Before and after

Learn first: Name the shapes (K)

Comes next: What makes a shape (1st)

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Build with shapes (Kindergarten)

  1. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  2. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  3. Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
  4. Four squares are put together, two on top and two on the bottom. What bigger shape do they make?
  5. Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
  6. Four squares are put together, two on top and two on the bottom. What bigger shape do they make?
  7. Two cubes of the same size are stacked, one on top of the other. What solid shape do they make?
  8. Two cubes of the same size are stacked, one on top of the other. What solid shape do they make?
  9. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  10. Two triangles that are the same size are put together along their long sides. What bigger shape do they make?
  11. Two squares are put side by side. What bigger shape do they make?
  12. Six triangles that are all the same are put together around one point. What bigger shape do they make?

Answer key

  1. square
  2. square
  3. rectangle
  4. square
  5. rectangle
  6. square
  7. rectangular prism
  8. rectangular prism
  9. square
  10. square
  11. rectangle
  12. hexagon

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