This shape has 3 vertices.
Triangle
This shape has no sides or vertices.
It is a sphere.
If you cut your banana into halves, how many parts are there?
There are 2 parts.
Mom made a big chocolate cake for dessert. The cake is in a pan that has 2 long sides and 2 shorter sides. What shape is the cake?
The cake is a rectangle.
I am a 3-D shape that looks like a triangle with a circle base or top.
I am a cone.
How many sides does a quadrilateral have?
A quadrilateral has 4 sides.
What is special about a cube? How many faces and what is the shape of the faces?
A cube has 6 square faces.
4 people are going to share 1 pizza. They divide it into four parts. One part is called what?
One part is called a fourth.
Katie was rolling the dice playing a game. How many numbers are on each die?
There are 6 numbers on a die because it has 6 faces.
I am a 3-D shape that looks like a rectangle with 2 circles.
I am a cylinder.
Which shape has more sides, a hexagon or a pentagon? Explain.
A hexagon has more sides than a pentagon. A pentagon has 5 sides, and a hexagon has 6 sides.
Describe a rectangular prism. How many faces? What are the shapes of the faces?
It has 6 faces. The faces are rectangles, but it can have 2 square faces and 4 rectangular faces.
What is the shaded part called?
One third.
John put some shapes together to make a picture. He took a square and put a triangle on top of it. Now what shape does he have? How many sides does it have?
A square with a triangle on top looks like a house. It is a pentagon, a 5 sided shape.
I am a 2-D shape. I have more that 3 angles, but less than a hexagon. All my sides are the same length, but I am not a square or a rhombus. What must I be?
I am a pentagon with all equal sides.
Which object is NOT a quadrilateral, a kite, a TV, a stop sign, or a door?
A stop sign has 8 sides. It is an octagon.
Name a 3-D shape that is not a cube or a rectangular prism.
A sphere, a cone, a cylinder.
Granny made 2 pies, an apple and a pumpkin pie. She cut the apple pie into fourths, and the pumpkin into thirds. Which would be more, a fourth or a third?
A third is more than a fourth.
Sammy put some blocks together. He has 4 rows of 4 blocks. What shape did he probably make? A cone, a sphere, triangle, hexagon, square, or trapezoid.
He probably made a square.
I am a 3-D shape. If you put me on a table, I might roll away. Sometimes I am thrown into a basket and people cheer. What shape am I?
I am a sphere.
If you have 11 sticks, what 3 shapes could you make? Explain.
EXAMPLES: You could make a triangle, a square, and a rectangle.
You could also make a pentagon, and two triangles.
How many faces, vertices, and edges does a cube have? Does a rectangular prism have more or less?
6 faces, 8 vertices, and 12 edges.
Trick question. They have the same.
Tom baked 3 square pizzas. He cut them into fourths. How many pieces are there all together?
There are 12 pieces altogether.
Jaina is decorating a shoe box. She is painting each face a different color. How many colors of paint will she need? Also she will put a special decoration on each vertex. How many special decorations will she need for the vertices?
She will need 6 colors of paint for the faces and 8 special decorations for the vertices.
If you cut a rectangle is half you could get one of 3 shapes. What are the three shapes?
You might get a triangle, a square, or another rectangle.