Composing 2D Shapes

Shape Composer

Composes shapes with anticipation (“I know what will fit!”). Chooses shapes using angles as well as side lengths. Rotation and flipping are used intentionally to select and place shapes. In the“Pattern Block Puzzles” below, all angles are correct, and patterning is evident.

Activities

You may see this:

Other Examples:

Given an outline of a dinosaur originally made with pattern blocks, a child intentionally chooses shapes that will fill the puzzle and rotates and flips the shapes into place.

Help your student become a(n) Shape Composer

These activities provide shape puzzles without any internal guidelines and larger areas than those of earlier levels so children have to figure out how to fill the space by carefully composing shapes.