2ND GRADE GEOMETRY

This page provides samples of 2nd grade geometry activities suitable for use in math centers, small group, or whole class settings. All activities are designed to elicit a range of responses and provide opportunities for students to communicate their reasoning and mathematical thinking. Download the sample activities under each standard or purchase the 2nd Grade Math Centers eBook and have all the Number, Geometry, Measurement and Data Centers you’ll need for the entire school year in one convenient digital file.

Teaching in a state that is implementing their own specific math standards?  Download our 2nd Grade Correlations document for cross-referenced tables outlining the alignment of each state's standards with the CCSS-M, as well as the page numbers in our 2nd Grade Math Centers eBook related to each standard. 

2.G.A.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
Sample Activities:
My Shape Riddle
Geoboard Quadrilaterals
Tangram Shapes
Skeletal Models
Math Literature Link: The Greedy Triangle
Also included in 2nd Grade Math Centers:
Constructing 2-Dimensional Shapes
Describing 3-Dimensional Shapes
Comparing 3-Dimensional Shapes
Geoboard Triangles
Flip, Slide, Turn
Nets for a Cube

2.G.A.2 Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.
Sample Activity:
Cover a Rectangle 
Also included in 2nd Grade Math Centers:
Complete the Rectangle

2.G.A.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.
Sample Activities:
Geoboard Halves 
Fraction Barrier Game
Also included in 2nd Grade Math Centers:
Geoboard Fourths 
Mr. Zed's Cakes