- Mix the blue pieces on the rug.
- Ask the child to please make a square.
- Ask the child if she can make a parallelogram with those two pieces.
- Ask the child to make another parallelogram with those two pieces.
- Say: “Can you make any other shape with these two pieces?”
- “With two right angled Isosceles Triangles, we can make a square, two parallelograms, and a triangle, if we turn one triangle upside-down.”
- Mix the isosceles triangles with the others and choose the two right angled scalene triangles.
- Ask the child to make a parallelogram.
- “Can you make another parallelogram with these two pieces?”
- Next, ask the child to make a rectangle.
- Show the child how to make it by turning one of the triangles upside-down.
- Say: “We can make two parallelograms, a rectangle, and a triangle with two right angled scalene triangles.”
- Ask the child what she can make with two equilateral triangles.
- “When we build with two equilateral triangles, we always get the same shape, a rhombus.”
- Ask the child to build with one scalene triangle, and one isosceles triangle.
- The child can build a trapezoid and a triangle.
- Return the material to the box, the box to the shelf.
POINT OF INTEREST
- Making the shapes with the blue triangles, without any guidelines.
- Superimposing shapes.
CONTROL OF ERROR
- The triangles from Box One.
- Teacher or another child.
LANGUAGE
- The names of all the shapes, total and individual.