Mississippi Math K.G.5
The Standard
Model objects in the world by drawing two-dimensional shapes and building three-dimensional shapes.
2025 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for Mathematics · Analyze, Compare, Create, and Compose Shapes
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students draw flat shapes to show objects they see, such as a circle for a plate. They use clay or blocks to build solid shapes, such as a sphere for a ball.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can draw a rectangular window and build a cylinder to model a can. They can explain which model is flat and which can be held.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call a drawn circle a sphere because both look round. They may make a flat circle from clay when asked to build a ball.
How to Assess It
- Show students a picture of a window and a soup can. Ask them to draw the window, build the can with clay, and name the shapes they made.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students a paper plate and clay; have them trace the plate and shape a ball from clay.
Show a party hat and ask, "Why can you hold the hat but not a triangle drawn on paper?"
Play picture-card relay: pairs draw or build the pictured object, then classmates guess what it is.
Bring in a soup can and its round lid; students build the can from clay and draw the lid.
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