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Road Sign Shapes on a Neighborhood Walk

Grade 1 geometry with road signs: tell shapes apart by sides, corners, and being closed, not by color, size, or which way they turn.

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Aligned to1.G.A.1

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1 Common Core standard
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11 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 1
Subject: Math
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Short answer, Drawing

About this worksheet

What students practice

Students name the defining attributes of a shape: closed, straight sides, and corners.
Students explain that color, size, and turning do not change a shape's name.
Students find shapes of the same kind even when they look different.

How to use

Read the prompts aloud and have students trace and count each side and corner with a finger. Afterward, talk about the shapes of real signs near your school.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

1.G.A.1

Tell apart the features that define a shape from features that do not, such as color.

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Road Sign Shapes on a Neighborhood Walk

Find what makes a shape a shape, and what does not.

What makes a sign's shape?

A shape's name comes from its straight sides, its corners, and being closed. Color, size, and the way it is turned do not change its name.

Lena says a stop sign is an octagon because it is red. What really makes this stop sign an octagon?

A. It is red.
B. It has the word STOP on it.
C. It is closed and has 8 straight sides and 8 corners.
D. It is on a tall pole.

This gray school sign is a pentagon. Count its sides and corners.

How many straight sides does the sign have?
How many corners does the sign have?
If the sign were painted orange, how many straight sides would it have then?

Mr. Kim's class wants to make a triangle sign. Circle each thing that every triangle must have.

3 straight sidesa point at the top3 cornersa gray colorsides that meet so it is closeda big size

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