With our standardized testing right around the corner, we've been doing test prep. Many of our students are struggling with the geometrical hierarchy of polygons, so we created some sorts and matching activities for them.
They had such a great time figuring out which polygon was being described and I loved that some of my high kids still learned new vocabulary terms (like kite). Most students are pretty good with matching the polygon to the definition, but when it comes to the classification of quadrilaterals...they get a little stumped.
But these centers really helped them understand not only the individual polygons, but how they interact with each other within the geometrical hierarchy.
I've bundled these centers and they are now available here on TpT!
(On a completely adorable side note, several of them went off on a tangent about how this hierarchy was like the Greek mythology family trees we made in small groups. Two groups got into it about who would be at the top of the tree: Zeus? Jupiter? The Titans? Kronos? They were rather reluctantly wheeled back into the math conversation. At least they're making connections!)
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