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Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task
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"This is a great resource to build critical thinking with 2D shapes. It's also a great way to keep students engaged in their learning and with their classmates. I love watching them work together to make new shapes."
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Description

Are you looking for a fun way to have your kindergarten or first-grade students build larger shapes from smaller ones? This math task is for you! Your students will receive four shape challenges that increase in difficulty using pattern blocks! With this fun challenge-style task, your students will love composing simple shapes from larger ones!

After your students complete all the shape challenges, they can try the mild, medium, or spicy check your understanding challenges or all 3!

Here’s what you’ll get:

5 No Prep Google Slides and Powerpoint Task Launch Slides, Partner Expectations, Thin Slicing and Check Your Understanding slides

1 PDF with

           - Step-by-step Task Directions

           - Print-and-go recording sheets

           - Mild, Medium, and Spicy check-your-understanding bonus tasks

This task is perfect if you are just beginning to implement the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework. Even if you are unfamiliar with it, this task is a fantastic way to engage your students in composing simple shapes from smaller ones in a way they will love, with task directions, PowerPoint and Google Slide visual supports, and recording sheets!

Note: This task and clues are designed to be used with pattern blocks.

What will this Building Thinking Classrooms style task help my students learn?

✅ Composing simple shapes to form larger shapes.

✅ Identifying shapes 

✅ Critical thinking

✅ Social skills and cooperative learning

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“I used this with my building thinking classrooms task and it was fun and engaging!

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“My students loved this activity. I can’t wait to use it with my future students!”

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“Building Thinking Classrooms is a great way to make math more interactive and for students to collaborate. These slides are a great launching point for students to begin from.”

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Composing Shapes from Smaller Shapes Task Building Thinking Classrooms Task

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5 slides + 9 pages

What others say

"This is a great resource to build critical thinking with 2D shapes. It's also a great way to keep students engaged in their learning and with their classmates. I love watching them work together to make new shapes."
star
Amber L.

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Description

Are you looking for a fun way to have your kindergarten or first-grade students build larger shapes from smaller ones? This math task is for you! Your students will receive four shape challenges that increase in difficulty using pattern blocks! With this fun challenge-style task, your students will love composing simple shapes from larger ones!

After your students complete all the shape challenges, they can try the mild, medium, or spicy check your understanding challenges or all 3!

Here’s what you’ll get:

5 No Prep Google Slides and Powerpoint Task Launch Slides, Partner Expectations, Thin Slicing and Check Your Understanding slides

1 PDF with

           - Step-by-step Task Directions

           - Print-and-go recording sheets

           - Mild, Medium, and Spicy check-your-understanding bonus tasks

This task is perfect if you are just beginning to implement the Building Thinking Classrooms Framework. Even if you are unfamiliar with it, this task is a fantastic way to engage your students in composing simple shapes from smaller ones in a way they will love, with task directions, PowerPoint and Google Slide visual supports, and recording sheets!

Note: This task and clues are designed to be used with pattern blocks.

What will this Building Thinking Classrooms style task help my students learn?

✅ Composing simple shapes to form larger shapes.

✅ Identifying shapes 

✅ Critical thinking

✅ Social skills and cooperative learning

Teachers like YOU have said this about other BTC tasks!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“This is an excellent resource! My students were engaged in the tasks. It was great to see the different strategies students used to solve these tasks.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“This is great for my students. We love BTC and they loved these activities.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“I used this with my building thinking classrooms task and it was fun and engaging!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“My students loved this activity. I can’t wait to use it with my future students!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Building Thinking Classrooms is a great way to make math more interactive and for students to collaborate. These slides are a great launching point for students to begin from.”

You may also like…

Building Thinking Classrooms Starter Pack

Kindergarten BTC Bundle

1st Grade BTC Bundle

2nd Grade BTC Bundle

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This is a great resource to build critical thinking with 2D shapes. It's also a great way to keep students engaged in their learning and with their classmates. I love watching them work together to make new shapes.
Amber L.
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Grades taught: 1st
Student populations: Emerging bilinguals, Learning difficulties

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”
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