Maths Out Loud
Describing
- Tape a 3-D shape (cube, cuboid, cone, sphere, pyramid or cylinder) to a child’s back.
- Turn them round so that the class is looking at their back.
- Ask children to describe the shape WITHOUT using its name.
- Can the child guess what shape it is?
- Repeat with other shapes and other children.
Songs/Chants/Rhymes
Incey Wincey Spider. The classic song/nursery rhyme.
3-D shapes. A rhyme to support recognition of 3-D shapes all around us.
Stories
Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood
Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh (2-D shapes)
Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong (2-D shapes but shapes found in the environment that could be converted to 3-D shapes)
Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes by Stuart J Murphy (specific to 3-D shapes; you decide whether the storyline is appropriate)