Grade 3 - Geometry and Spatial Sense
Standard 3.GSS.1 - Count the edges, vertices and faces of three dimensional shapes.
Included Skills: Geometry
Geometric Properties • use a reference tool (e.g., paper corner, pattern block, carpenter's square) to identify right angles and to describe angles as greater than, equal to, or less than a right angle (Sample problem: Which pattern blocks have angles bigger than a right angle?); • identify and compare various polygons (i.e., triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons) and sort them by their geometric properties (i.e., number of sides; side lengths; number of interior angles; number of right angles); • compare various angles, using concrete materials and pictorial representations, and describe angles as bigger than, smaller than, or about the same as other angles (e.g., "Two of the angles on the red pattern block are bigger than all the angles on the green pattern block."); • compare and sort prisms and pyramids by geometric properties (i.e., number and shape of faces, number of edges, number of vertices), using concrete materials; • construct rectangular prisms (e.g., using given paper nets; using Polydrons), and describe geometric properties (i.e., number and shape of faces, number of edges, number of vertices) of the prisms.