Mathematics: Kindergarten
Classroom Assessments Based on Standards
Sorting Shapes
Source: Assessment Sampler
Mathematical Idea: Sorting shapes
Format: Interview
Type of Assessment: Formative
Thinking Level: 3
MPS Learning Target:
Geometry
Learning Target 4
Sort, classify, and describe characteristics of two dimensional shapes and real-world
objects.
Descriptors
C.a: 1 Identify and explain examples and non-examples of two-dimensional figures (e.g.,
triangle, rectangle, circle) and three-dimensional figures (e.g., cubes, cylinders, prisms).
C.a: 2 Describe, sort, and classify shapes and everyday objects using beginning ideas of
geometric properties (e.g., rolls, slides, straight sides, three corners).
Skills Assessed:
Identifying similarities of 2-D shapes
Materials needed:
large paper folded in 1/3’s for student recording sheet
Copies of shape sheet
Copies of teacher recording sheet
Task:
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Have the students cut the shapes apart.
Ask the students to sort the shapes into 3 groups and glue them to the
recording sheet. (large newsprint or construction paper)
Students do not need to use all 20 cards but must include all possible
solutions in each of their chosen categories.
Ask students to explain how/why they created their groups. (E.g. if student
creates a group of animals with 4 legs, all animals with 4 legs must be
included in group.)
Developed by the Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership (MMP) with support by the
National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0314898.
Cut out the shapes along the dotted line.
Developed by the Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership (MMP) with support by the National Science
Foundation under Grant No. 0314898.
Sorting Shapes
Name: ________________________________ Date: ___________________
Student clearly describes sorting rules:
yes
no
Sorting rules identified:
Student includes all possible shapes in each group: yes
no
Student includes incorrect shapes in any of the groups:
yes
no
Notes
Developed by the Milwaukee Mathematics Partnership (MMP) with support by the National Science
Foundation under Grant No. 0314898.