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Roll and Race Shape Games

By thisreadingmama 8 Comments

Welcome back to the sixth and final Roll & Race Games from our K-2 Math Activities. Today, I’m sharing 5 FREE Roll & Race Shape Games. These shape games were designed with 2nd grade in mind, but older or younger learners may also enjoy them!

*The free download link can be found towards the END of this post. Just look for and click on the teal, oval button.

FREE Roll and Race Shape Games - 2nd Grade

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Roll & Race Shape Games

These Roll & Race Shape Games are played just like all my other ones in this series. Roll a die. Find that dot pattern on the game board and work the first problem in that row. Continue rolling and racing through each row of the game board. When one row gets to the end, kids have a first place row winner. The directions encourage them to keep rolling and racing until one row also wins 2nd place and another wins 3rd place.

Included in this pack are 5 shape games for:

1. congruent & similar shapes
2. shape with simple fractions
3. drawing lines to divide shapes into halves, thirds, or fourths
4. 3-d shapes (is it a face?)
5. comparing shapes  with 2-d & 3-d shapes (how are they the same/different)

This is also a page on tips when learners aren’t getting these concepts and two recording pages for learners. The recording page works great if you have one of these at a math center or learners are working on the games independently and you need an accountability piece to see the work they’ve done.

 

My own 1st grader enjoyed a couple of the shape games. Here they are in action!

shape game with fractions for 2nd grade

The shape game with fractions isn’t as simple as it may appear. Learners have to do some deeper thinking with fractions on some of the spaces on the game board. For example: There is a circle with four spaces and kids are asked to color in half.

 

Roll and Race Dividing the Shapes Game

With Roll & Race Draw the Line, learners are encouraged to draw lines to evenly divide the shape into 2 halves, 3 thirds, or 4 fourths. Because some of the shapes repeat, I encouraged him to find a new way to divide a repeated shape.

If learners are having difficulty with this one, it may help to hand them pattern blocks or let them cut out the shape with paper so they can fold it.

 

Roll and Race game for faces of 3-d shapes

The Let’s Face It game board requires kids to do some thinking about 3-d shapes and their faces. In each box, they have to answer if the 2-d shape pictured is one of the faces on the 3-d shape. Some of these are tricky!

Again, if kids are struggling a little with this, it helps tremendously to hand them some 3-d shapes so they can “see” the faces.

 

Comparing Shapes Games for 2-d and 3-d shapes

The Comparing Shapes game board has its own recording sheet in the pack.

Before kids are ready to try this game, it’s good that learners have some basic vocabulary about 3-d shapes like face, edge, and vertex. We can remind them about lines symmetry. We did a few simple experiments with 3-d shapes, like you see in this old post, which gave my son more ideas on how shapes can be similar and different. Again, it provides support to learners if they can touch and feel 2-d shapes and 3-d shapes, so have some on hand!

 


 

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Comments

  1. Michelle says

    May 10, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    Just want to say I love your blog!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 12, 2016 at 8:37 pm

      Aw, thanks!

      Reply
  2. Grandma7x says

    May 1, 2017 at 9:33 am

    Your Roll’n’Race learning sheets are awesome. Reinforcing and challenging. Appreciate that they can be downloaded directly without added steps. Thanks so much for sharing and caring!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 2, 2017 at 10:12 pm

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  3. Petrina says

    March 23, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    Much appreciated! The children will love learning with these!

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    • thisreadingmama says

      March 24, 2019 at 8:10 am

      You’re welcome! 🙂

      Reply
  4. Julie Bryce says

    August 11, 2021 at 3:12 pm

    I am SOLD on your wonderful blog! I am using this as my top resource this year!!!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      May 12, 2022 at 2:08 pm

      Thank you! So great to hear!

      Reply

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