Mighty builders, can you build it? Yes you can! We can see shapes all around us, but a lot of times they are next to each other or stacked up to make something new. In this lesson, students learn about composing shapes to make new shapes. We can do this with 2D and 3D shapes. Think about what shapes you might need to build a chair? Or a giant ice cream cone?
Understand that shapes can be composed into new, composite shapes
Practice turning, flipping, and arranging 2D and 3D shapes together to make new shapes
Standards addressed
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.2
Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.