About this game

Find the same shape

Find the same shape: a free Kindergarten math game for ages 5-6. Each round draws 5 questions; instructions are read aloud and every answer is checked and explained.

How it plays and why it helps

Turn a picture frame on its side and nobody calls it a new shape. Young children are not always so sure. Find the same shape shows a Kindergarten child one shape, a yellow rectangle or a red triangle, then four choices where the match has been turned. Your child taps it. Five shapes make a round, the instruction is read aloud, and the explanation says why it still counts: a turned rectangle keeps 4 sides, 2 long and 2 short, and 4 corners.

Sides and corners define a shape, not the way it faces. Seeing that takes mental rotation, the ability to turn a picture in your head. The hint asks for exactly that.

The rhombus is the decoy to watch. It also has 4 sides and 4 corners, and it looks tilted, just like the turned rectangle. Its sides are all the same length, though. Ask, "Does it have two long sides and two short ones?" Praise the checking: "You turned it in your head, then counted."

Aligned with

  • K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
  • K.G.B.4 Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/"corners") and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

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