Virginia SOL 4.MG.6.c
The Standard
Compare and contrast plane and solid figures (limited to circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, spheres, cubes, square pyramids, and rectangular prisms) according to their characteristics (number of sides, angles, vertices, edges, and the number and shape of faces).
Virginia Standards of Learning for Mathematics · The student will identify, describe, compare, and contrast plane and solid figures according to their characteristics (number of angles, vertices, edges, and the number and shape of faces), with and without models.
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What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, spheres, cubes, square pyramids, and rectangular prisms. They compare figures by counting and describing sides, angles, vertices, edges, and faces.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students accurately name the listed plane and solid figures and count their features. They use those features to explain clear similarities and differences between two figures.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call edges sides or count a solid's faces as edges. They may think a square is not a rectangle, or count a sphere's curved surface as a face.
How to Assess It
- Give students a cube and square pyramid. Ask them to record each figure's faces, face shapes, edges, and vertices, then write one similarity and one difference.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs shape cards and solid models, then have students complete a chart of sides, angles, vertices, edges, faces, and face shapes.
Ask: How are a square and cube alike and different? Students write two claims and support each with a feature.
Play Figure Riddles using clues such as, “I have six rectangular faces, twelve edges, and eight vertices.”
Photograph classroom objects shaped like the listed figures, then label each object and explain which geometric features match.
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