Maths - 3D shapes and Properties

 3D shapes and properties. #3Dshapes#Faces#Edges#Corners

Children get familiar with shapes like square, circle, oval, rectangle since their pre-school and as the grade progress, they learn 2D and 3D shapes.

In grade 3, my son learns about properties of 3D shapes and the vocabularies like vertices, faces and edges are little confusing for him.

I made this little animated gif to help understand face, edge and corners (vertices) of 3D shapes - square, rectangle, cylinder and triangle.

We wished to add more fun to this learning and then we had an idea of picking daily use objects at home to explore the face, corners and edges of them.

Different faces of cube and cuboid: 

This kind of activity provides an opportunity for kids to practice and develop their skills to relate to real-time objects.

I have shared the gif file here to understand the difference of face, corner and edge of cube shape.

Below gif tells you to identify the face of shape and it shows there are 6 faces of cube.

The below gif is to represent the corners of square shape and kids should be able to tell corners of objects with different shapes.

Try it out by giving them some boxes from kitchen counter and ask them to find and count the edges for them. I bet this will boost your child's interest in learning. 😇

Edges are little tricky to remember, one of the easiest ways could be to have a 3D object painted or colored by the child to know it well.

Just pick any amazon shipping box, it comes with different dimensions and we usually dispose them.

It could be either in cube shape or cuboid shape and its easier to draw the edges with sketch pens or just paint with paint brush. ( an interesting way to engage the child in learning 😎 )

Hope this post is useful. what are your favorite ways to teach ? I would love to hear from you what works best with your child. Kindly do comment and let me know.

Happy teaching! Happy learning!!