Roll and Race Shape Games

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!

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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!

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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