Marcia Miller's Reflections & Resources

Playing with Geoboards

Geoboards come in a variety of sizes and patterned grids, and they’re lots of fun to play with using an assortment of colorful rubber bands.  You can create repetitive designs, six-pointed stars, triangles, squares, hexagons, rectangles, and all kinds of other shapes.

Triangles and more triangles
Hexagons within hexagons
It's fun to copy shapes with a partner, making your shapes exactly the same, or larger or smaller.
How many triangles do you see in the six-pointed stars? More than two? Do you see any hexagons? How many segments do you see in each of the other designs?
Squares are fun to build in a variety of sizes: 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, 5x5
Square color tiles and geoboards are great for playing with together. The color tiles can make it easier to see the number of individual squares within a given shape.
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