Shape Up!: Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons

WOW! This book blows my mind. I only wish it included more wonderful ideas inside!

Who knew you can learn math with slices of cheese, stick pretzels, and a few more fun objects.
PICTURE THIS!
Take 3 pretzel sticks and connect them, you have an equilateral triangle! Take a bit of the bottom stick and now you have an isosceles triangle.
Make an "L" with two new pretzel sticks. The corner is called a vertex, and makes a right angle. Make the angle smaller; acute. Make the angle bigger; obtuse!
Take the cheese. Poke 3 holes. Draw lines connecting the holes. YOU HAVE A TRIANGLE! Do it again and compare the two.

This book includes a few fun things to read about while learning shapes. Drawing a shape on a paper by memorization is so old school. show more Make it fun! This book shows exactly how fun math can be. This kind of math is how I learned math and why I personally excelled at math during school.

The book is filled with FUN concepts of math knowledge. It is not boring and children will be engaged and curious to learn more about shapes. With the book, I feel like children will learn faster about shapes compared to their textbooks. I recommend this book to anyone with a child who is learning geometry. I put no specific age limit on the book, because everyone can learn something new.

The structure of the book is written amazingly. It starts off with a simple triangle and goes on telling what kind of triangles exist (with their names underline). It then goes on to more shapes with more sides.

Yes, it allows children to have that sense of wondering about how else they can make triangles or other shapes. It might even get them to make shapes with sticks or their bodies on the ground during recess/P.E.

5/5 stars. I don't believe this book could be any more organized, fun, or be written in a different way to make it better. It's perfect! show less

"Shape Up!" is a fun and interactive book that teaches the reader about triangles, polygons, angles, and quadrilaterals using every day objects and food like a piece of paper, slices of cheese, slice of bread, and pretzel sticks to demonstrate each term. An example of an exercise from the book is poking 3 holes into a slice of cheese, connect the dots, and cut out a triangle. After making one cheese triangle, it advises to make another one with the holes in different positions. This exercise teaches the reader that triangles may look different, but they are still considered triangles. Overall, I really enjoyed this book. I loved that the activities in the book deliver great hands-on experiences for the reader. I would do these show more activities with my own students one day to introduce these terms and shapes to them. show less

Readers are introduced to basic geometric shapes and concepts, while reading this engaging picture book.This colorful book is a bit busy but, fits the theme that Adler is trying to convey. It asks the reader to participate in drawing the shapes on paper but, also making them with food. The activities in the book, although all cannot be done spontaneously, can be done as planned classroom activities, or they can be done at home. I love how this book allows the reader to interact with mathematics hands-on.

Shape Up is a perfect book to read when teaching about shapes, specifically triangles, angles, polygons, and quadrilaterals. This book should be read as children do the steps in the book. The book says to use food and classroom supplies to make shapes. This would be a great activity to do with students. It is fun, since they are playing with food and supplies, but also educational because they are learning facts about shapes. This book simplifies shapes and makes it easy for kids to understand. By allowing kids to be hands-on, I think they learn more efficient and will remember it. I will definitely use this book to get students engaged while learning about shapes.

I loved this book. The book helps a student learn about shapes using inexpensive and easy to find items. The activities can easily be used in a classroom by every student. The illustrations are helpful because they show the reader the end results of the activity. I will use this book next year. I can read it while demonstrating the activity and then have the students repeat the steps I had just showed them. Hands on activities are a great way to learn math.

A creative book that can be used to introduce geometric shapes and terms. Shapes can be formed from different objects such as food as seen throughout the book. Students can follow along with the book and create shapes using the same foods. Not only would students be listening to the story but will also be hands on.

I think this book is a great way to get students involved in making different shapes. They can use food to follow along with the book to creat different types of shapes. I think this could be very engaging for students which will hopefully help them retain the information they will need.