Geometry Activities

With Fun Math Games for Kids

Geometry activities bring shapes alive. Once you start looking, your kids will see shapes everywhere - just look in a sunflower and you'll see what I mean.

Maths games for kids are all about throwing away the workbooks and showing why geometry has formed an essential part of our lives for centuries.

Once kids realize what fun they can have, learning about shapes is easy.

I'm going to cover a range of fun geometry activities we've been homeschooling right the way from Preschool to High School, starting with some great homeschool website math games for kids on the way.

Website Kids Math Games teaching Geometry

Some websites have really good interactive geometry activities for kids. Being able to play with shapes on the computer can be lots of fun and teach a lot of geometry.

Here are some of our homeschool favorites:

• Johnnie's Math Pages. Pattern blocks, geoboards, plane shapes and polyhedra as well as angles chosen by a mentor teacher in elementary math. He has managed to pick activities which combine fun math games for kids with learning. Highly recommended.
• Maths Is Fun. Activities and games around plane geometry and solids. Learn about shapes and find out what a torus looks like.
• You can find more suggestions in the websites we suggest in our homeschool Online Math Activities.

Geometry Fun Math Activities for Older Kids

• A great way to build on your child's understanding of shapes is to actually make them. Being able to hold a cube or a pyramid in your hand is the most important step you can make in bringing shapes to life.

  Catherine and I had great fun making these homeschool models, which you cut out and stick together. There are two starter books: Make Shapes 1 and Make Shapes 2.

  For older children, you can progress on to advanced polyhedra. The models are really striking, if a bit fiddly, and the books reasonably priced. You'll find a full list at Tarquin Books.

• The circle has so much to teach for kids geometry activities. With younger children, you can start homeschool by going in the kitchen and drawing round all the different shaped lids you can find - coffee, cocoa, even a treacle tin lid. You can measure the radius and use some string to find out the circumference too.

  With older children, you could add to this homeschooling geometry activity by working out Pi for each of the different circles you've drawn. (Divide the circumference by its diameter). You could be surprised by the answer!

Geometry with Math Games For Kids

Games are a fantastic way to learn geometry. Winning is always a good homeschooling incentive, and there are some great ways to sneak in shapes while having fun.

• Triominoes (pictured) make great shapes and teach a lots of math number skills.
• Picdoku (age 8 to adult) uses geometry with shape tiles to play Sudoku (though you can play using animal tiles too). It's one of those kids math games which tests logic and visual skills to build into a fun way of learning homeschool math.

Fun Math For Kids At Preschool

The best place to start with geometry activities is from the beginning! It's easy to make shapes fun for your preschool child when you're homeschooling - and, once they've started enjoying playing with them, shapes will always be something they want to find out about.

Here are some fun homeschool math activities to get you started:

• The value of a bright set of colorful wooden blocks is undimmed. Building towers and knocking them down again always makes for fun math games for kids! Games with blocks give a real hands-on dimension to triangles, cubes and rectangles and teach balance, comparison, fractions and geometry.
• Why not make math kids enjoy with this butterfly in our homeschool Preschool math activity? You can design all sorts of shapes to stick on her wings; diamonds, pentagons, hexagons - they'll all add to the beauty and teach symmetry at the same time.

Math Kids Enjoy For Elementary Activities

I hope all this shows that geometry activities and games are a fabulous way to teach your child why this ancient form of math is such fun.

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