Exploring Shapes

by Andrew King, Tony Kenyon

Games and projects introduce two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes, including the square, rectangle, triangle, circle, and polygon

Genres: Mathematics

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Contents of Exploring Shapes include squares and rectangles; tessellations, third dimension; triangles; more triangles; pyramids; circles; stretching circles; centers, sectors, and cones; polygons, tangrams; polyhedral and common shapes as well as a glossary to review these concepts. Activities and games are color-coded at three different levels of easy, medium and hard, so that kids can thumb through and then pick and choose projects or puzzles to undertake. Helpful hints on each page further make these interactive projects and experiments even more doable. Math concepts are briefly explained though directions are thoroughly detailed with explicit cartoon drawings and photographs of children actually doing the activity, so that students can learn math from viewing and doing rather than reading. A school librarian can have this useful resource available for math teachers to relieve the tedium of workbooks and offer an element of play and artistic outlet in a classroom while a children’s librarian in a public library can add King’s book to its collection as a resource to extend summer learning or for programming ideas.

[Takeisha Hannor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, it was a decent book. It is great for exploring two and three dimensional shapes including squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles. It has a lot of math ideas and fun projects for children to explore.

[Tammie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Circle, square,rectangle, tessalations, pyramids ,
3d objects
Activities for classroom
Gr k2