Grade 2 Geometry

Content
Relevance and Application: 1. Fairness in sharing depends on equal quantities, such as sharing a piece of cake, candy bar, or payment for a chore. 2. Shapes are used to communicate how people view their environment. 3. Geometry provides a system to describe, organize, & represent the world around us.

Essential Questions
Inquiry Questions: 1. How can we describe geometric figures? 2. Is a half always the same size & shape?

Unit Understanding
Shapes can be described by their attributes & used to represent part / whole relationships

EM 3.5

EM 1.15 EM 1.19

Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape. (CC: 2.G.3)

Recognize and draw shapes having specific attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. (CC: 2.G.1)

EM 3.5

Partition circles & rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares, using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. (CC:2.G.3)

Partition a rectangle into rows & columns of same size squares & count to find the total number of them.. (CC: 2.G.2)

Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, & cubes. (CC: 2.G.1) EM 3.5 EM 3.6

EM 2.9 EM 1.14