K.6.F
The Standard
create two-dimensional shapes using a variety of materials and drawings
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Mathematics
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students make familiar flat shapes with objects such as sticks, string, clay, and crayons. They connect parts to form closed shapes with the correct sides, corners, or curves.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can make a named shape with materials and draw it on paper. Their shapes are closed and show the correct number of sides, corners, or curves.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may leave gaps, add the wrong number of sides, or draw corners as curves. They may think a rotated square is not a square or confuse squares and rectangles.
How to Assess It
- Give each student craft sticks, yarn, and paper. Ask them to make a triangle with one material and draw a rectangle, then explain how they know each shape.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Set out craft sticks, yarn, clay, and paper, then have students build a circle, triangle, square, and rectangle.
Show two student-made shapes and ask, "Which shape matches the name, and what features prove it?"
Play Shape Builder by calling a shape name while students race to make it with sticks, string, or finger drawings.
Take a classroom shape walk, then have students sketch one real object and outline the flat shape they see.
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Related Standards
- 2.8.D
compose two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids with given properties or attributes
- 1.6.F
compose two-dimensional shapes by joining two, three, or four figures to produce a target shape in more than one way if possible
- 2.8.A
create two-dimensional shapes based on given attributes, including number of sides and vertices
- 1.6.C
create two-dimensional figures, including circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares, as special rectangles, rhombuses, and hexagons
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