What this lesson shows
Six triangles make a hexagon, two trapezoids make a hexagon, two squares make a rectangle.
The worked example
The lesson works this one step by step: hexagon (question 1). Then your kid tries one like it on paper.
The steps
- Fit small shapes together
- Make a bigger shape
- Find another way
Helping at home
Use pattern blocks or paper shapes. Fit small shapes edge to edge to make a bigger one, then try another way.
If your kid gets stuck
Fit them edge to edge.
Watch it with Lux
With Lux, this lesson is a narrated video and a printed page your kid works on. Then Lux helps with the same math on their own worksheet, one question at a time.
Standards
- Common Core 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.
Matches standards in 49 statesSee each state's code
- Alabama MA19.1.22
- Alaska 1.G.2
- Arizona 1.G.A.2
- Arkansas 1.GM.2
- California 1.G.A.2
- Colorado 1.G.A.2
- Connecticut 1.G.A.2
- Delaware 1.G.A.2
- District of Columbia 1.G.A.2
- Florida MA.1.GR.1.3, MA.1.GR.1.4
- Georgia 1.GSR.4.2
- Hawaii 1.G.A.2
- Idaho 1.G.A.2
- Illinois 1.G.A.2
- Indiana 2.G.2, 1.G.2
- Iowa 1.G.A.2
- Kansas 1.G.2
- Kentucky KY.1.G.2.a, KY.1.G.2.b
- Louisiana 1.G.A.2
- Maine 1.G.A.2
- Maryland 1.GR.B.4
- Massachusetts 1.G.A.2
- Michigan 1.G.A.2
- Minnesota 1.3.1.2
- Mississippi 1.G.2
- Missouri 1.GM.A.2
- Montana MT.1.G.3
- Nevada 1.G.A.2
- New Hampshire 1.G.A.2
- New Jersey 1.G.A.2
- New Mexico 1.G.A.2
- New York NY-1.G.2
- North Carolina NC.1.G.2.a, NC.1.G.2.b, NC.3.G.1.a
- North Dakota 1.GM.G.4
- Ohio 1.G.2
- Oklahoma K.GM.1.5, 1.GM.1.2, 1.GM.1.3, 2.GM.1.3
- Oregon 1.GM.A.2
- Pennsylvania CC.2.3.1.A.1
- Rhode Island 1.G.A.2
- South Carolina 1.MGSR.2.3, 2.MGSR.2.1
- South Dakota 1.G.A.2
- Tennessee K.G.B.6, 1.G.A.2
- Texas 111.3.b.6.F, 111.4.b.8.D, 111.4.b.8.E
- Utah 1.G.2.a, 1.G.2.b
- Vermont 1.G.A.2
- Virginia 1.MG.2f, 3.MG.4f, 3.MG.4g
- Washington 1.G.A.2
- West Virginia M.1.21
- Wisconsin M.1.G.A.2