Side Recognizer
Sub Trajectory: parts

When operating at the Side Recognizer developmental level, the child:

Identifies sides as distinct geometric objects with attributes.

Activities

You may see this:

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Other Examples:

  • Asked to find four-sided shapes, runs finger along the length of each side to find shapes that have four sides.
  • When asked to find a shape with 8 sides, chooses an octagon by counting its sides, but may not know the name of the shape.

Help your student become a(n) Side Recognizer

Activities and discussions challenge children to see sides of shapes as separate from the shape ("abstracting" them out of the shape).

Feely Box [Side Recognizer]

Is It or Not? (Side Recognizer)

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