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Arizona Math Standard: 3.G.A.1

Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others)may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.

What’s In My Brain: H vs Arrow
What’s In My Brain: H vs Arrow
Two columns. One is an example, one isn’t. Can you figure out the hidden rule before the big reveal?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
What’s In My Brain: Pentagon vs Pentagon
What’s In My Brain: Pentagon vs Pentagon
We’re looking at regular vs irregular polygons.
Gr 1-8
Grouping Shapes by Parallel and Perpendicular Sides
Grouping Shapes by Parallel and Perpendicular Sides
Which shapes go together based on parallel and perpendicular lines?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Geometry Image: Esplanade Theaters
Geometry Image: Esplanade Theaters
What odd and interesting shapes can your students find in this geometric image?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8
Geometry Image: University Ave
Geometry Image: University Ave
What odd and interesting shapes can your students find in this geometric image?
Gr 1-5
Geometry Image: Victoria Conference Center
Geometry Image: Victoria Conference Center
What odd and interesting shapes can your students find in this geometric image?
Gr 1-5
Geometry Image: Skytree
Geometry Image: Skytree
What odd and interesting shapes can your students find in this geometric image?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Geometry Image: Steigerwald
Geometry Image: Steigerwald
What odd and interesting shapes can your students find in this geometric image?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7
How Many Will There Be? Squares in Squares
How Many Will There Be? Squares in Squares
Give kids a taste of a sequence, let them build an understanding, and then see how far their predictions can take them.
Gr 2-5
Math Curiosity: Klauber’s Triangle
Math Curiosity: Klauber’s Triangle
In 1932, a leading authority on rattlesnakes, Laurence Klauber, discovered a startling pattern within a triangle of primes.
Gr 1-5
Math Curiosity: A Pattern Packed Triangle
Math Curiosity: A Pattern Packed Triangle
Pascal’s pattern-packed triangle is a potent puzzle for pupils to ponder.
Gr 3-5
What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?
What’s In My Brain: Trapezoids or Not?
Which are trapezoids and which are not?
Gr 1-8
The Angles of a Triangle
The Angles of a Triangle
Why tell a kid the rules of a triangle when they can discover them!?
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
Grouping Quadrilaterals In A Hierarchy
Grouping Quadrilaterals In A Hierarchy
Can we classify quadrilaterals like we classify living things?
Gr 1-5
Lines, Line Segments,  Rays, and Infinity!
Lines, Line Segments, Rays, and Infinity!
A lesson about lines, line segments, and rays that avoids dull memorization. Instead, we ponder this delightful question: Which is longer, a ray or a line? Then, kids consider what these different geometric concepts would think about each other.
Gr 1, 4
Deducing the Area of Triangles
Deducing the Area of Triangles
Using patterns, students try to deduce where that area formula came from.
Gr 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7