Analyze and Compare Two- and Three-dimensional Shapes: CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.B.4
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Common Core: Kindergarten Math › Analyze and Compare Two- and Three-dimensional Shapes: CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.B.4
What is the difference between the two shapes below?
They are two different shapes.
They are two different sizes.
They are two different colors.
Explanation
Both of these shapes are the same size and the same color. The difference is the type of shape.
We have a pentagon, a five-sided shape, and a hexagon, a four-sided shape.
What is the difference between the two shapes below?
The number of sides each of the shapes have.
The color of the shapes.
One shape is two-dimensional and the other shape is three-dimensional.
Explanation
The difference between these two shapes are the number of side lengths they each have.
The triangle has three sides and the rectangle has four sides. They are both two-dimensional shapes because they are both flat shapes, and they are both red shapes.
What is similar about the two shapes below?
The number of sides.
The names of the shapes.
The size of the shapes.
Explanation
Both of these shapes have four sides.
What is the difference between the two shapes below?
One shape is round and one shape is made up of straight lines.
One shape is two-dimensional and the other shape is three-dimensional.
They are different colors.
Explanation
Both of these shapes are two-dimensional because they are both flat shapes. They are also the same color.
However, the circle is a round shape and the triangle is made up of three, straight lines.
What is similar about the two shapes below?
They are both three-dimensional.
They are both two-dimensional.
They are the same color.
Explanation
Both of these shapes are three-dimensional, or solid, shapes.
What is similar about the two shapes below?
They have the same number of sides.
They are the same color.
They are the same size.
Explanation
Both of these shapes have four sides.
What is the difference between the two shapes below?
The number of sides each of the shapes have.
The height of the shapes.
One shape is two-dimensional and the other shape is three-dimensional
Explanation
Both of these shapes are the same height and they are two-dimensional shapes, because they are flat. The difference between them are the number of sides they each have.
The triangle has three sides and the rectangle has four sides.
What is similar about the two shapes below?
The number of sides they both have.
The color of the shapes.
The size of the shapes.
Explanation
Both of these shapes have the same number of sides.
What is the difference between the two shapes below?
One of the shapes is two-dimensional and one of the shapes is three-dimensional.
Their color is different.
Nothing is different, they are the same shape.
Explanation
The shape on the left is a solid shape, or a three-dimensional shape. The shape on the left is a flat shape, or two-dimensional shape.
What is similar about the two shapes below?
The number of sides each shapes have.
The color of each shape.
The size of each shape.
Explanation
Both of these shapes have four sides.