Recycling – naming
The purpose of this resource is to provide suggestions to whānau about how they can facilitate geometry conversations while sorting recycling.
About this resource
This section provides some ideas for how you can raise awareness and share mathematics using everyday experiences and resources found around your home. It includes ideas for supporting your children’s learning in all areas of mathematics: geometry, measurement, statistics, algebra, and number.
This page provides suggestions as to how mathematics conversations about geometry can be facilitated at home when sorting recycling.
Naming
The development of a strong geometry vocabulary will support a child when they are explaining their thinking and asking questions. You can help them acquire these new words by talking about shape and size and space. When sorting the recycling, ask them to describe the shapes of the objects to you. Encourage them to use general descriptions like round, flat, box, ball, pointed, and smooth. Also teach them and encourage them to use the more specific geometry words for shapes and solids like cube, sphere, circle, triangle, pyramid, prism, cuboid, and edge.
- You call a box a cuboid. That’s a funny word, but it’s a geometry word. How many cuboids are in the cardboard recycling? Yeah, the toothpaste box is a long cuboid, and the Weetbix box is more square. Is the egg box a cuboid?
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