Enhance your Grade 3 students' geometric skills with our engaging Shape Recognition Worksheets! Designed to help young learners identify and understand various shapes, these worksheets feature fun activities that make learning interactive and exciting. From tracing and coloring shapes to solving puzzles, each worksheet aims to reinforce shape recognition through visuals and hands-on practice. Ideal for classroom use or at-home learning, our resources cater to diverse learning styles. Encourage your students to explore the world of shapes and develop their critical thinking skills with these comprehensive and user-friendly worksheets. Perfect for educators looking to enrich their math curriculum!


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Make Quadrilaterals Worksheet
Make Quadrilaterals Worksheet

Make Quadrilaterals Worksheet

This fun and colorful worksheet will help your child understand and identify quadrilaterals. It's simple and encourages them to draw lines to create a square, rectangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and parallelogram. Stimulate their minds and watch them learn while they have fun!
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Odd Shape Out Worksheet for Grade 3
Odd Shape Out Worksheet for Grade 3

Odd Shape Out Worksheet for Grade 3

Time to test your child's shape knowledge! With this worksheet, help them find the odd shape out in each row and check the box under it. Print out the pdf and look through it with them – each row has four brightly colored shapes. See if they can spot any differences among them and then check the box below the shape that does not belong.
Odd Shape Out Worksheet for Grade 3
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Groups of Shapes Worksheet
Groups of Shapes Worksheet

Groups of Shapes Worksheet

Can your child identify and name shapes? Help them learn the unique features of each and have them check the correct name for each group in the colorful pictures on this worksheet.
Groups of Shapes Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 12
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 12
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 12
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Dinner Shapes: Making a Whole Worksheet
Dinner Shapes: Making a Whole Worksheet

Dinner Shapes: Making a Whole Worksheet

Using food and snacks to stimulate learning and interest in topics is a great strategy. Fractions can prove tricky, but this worksheet can help your child become an expert. Have them look for the missing parts of the food to make a whole, then circle the answer.
Dinner Shapes: Making a Whole Worksheet
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Parking Area Worksheet
Parking Area Worksheet

Parking Area Worksheet

Math may not be your child's favorite, but that doesn't mean they can't excel. Math can seem intimidating, but with practice, they can learn it's not so hard. In this worksheet, your kids will calculate the area of a parking lot, by adding length and width. Help them read the labels and select the correct answer.
Parking Area Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 2
Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 2
Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 2
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Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 1
Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 1
Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 1
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Names of Squares Worksheet
Names of Squares Worksheet

Names of Squares Worksheet

Ask your students to put an X on the appropriate squares. This worksheet is part of learning chess basics. Each file is marked with a letter and rank with a number. This allows moves and squares to be easily named and noted. e.g. The square marked "e5" is the fifth rank of the e-file.
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Sorting Shapes Worksheet
Sorting Shapes Worksheet

Sorting Shapes Worksheet

Before beginning, ensure your child is familiar with quadrilaterals (4 sides) and triangles (3 sides). This tracing exercise is easy: sort the shapes into the two groups and trace the dotted lines to the correct group.
Sorting Shapes Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 50
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 50
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 50
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What's the Missing Side Worksheet
What's the Missing Side Worksheet

What's the Missing Side Worksheet

Assist your pupils in improving math skills with fun exercises like the tracing sheet. Show them the picture and guide them to trace the missing side. Ask them to check the box of the right perimeter afterwards. Doing this regularly can help them to enjoy and appreciate the subject more.
What's the Missing Side Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 69
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 69
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 69
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Shape Quest Worksheet
Shape Quest Worksheet

Shape Quest Worksheet

Help your child identify shapes by having them find shapes made up of equal parts. This colorful worksheet challenges them to look through each row and circle two matching shapes. It's a great way to teach them the unique features of each shape, while also helping them understand that identical shapes can look different.
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Adding up to 1000: Page 50
Adding up to 1000: Page 50

Adding up to 1000: Page 50

Adding up to 1000: Page 50
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 58
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 58
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 58
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Color the Shapes Worksheet
Color the Shapes Worksheet

Color the Shapes Worksheet

Help your student master shape identification with this fun worksheet. Ask them to name the shapes in the picture, then color it! Ask questions like "How many squares do you see?" and "How many triangles?" to extend the learning. Identify squares, circles, triangles and rectangles with this enjoyable coloring page.
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Color the Shapes Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 14
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 14
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 14
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Perimeter Parking Worksheet
Perimeter Parking Worksheet

Perimeter Parking Worksheet

Geometry can be daunting for kids, but you can make it easy with simple exercises and familiar objects. Check out this worksheet with two sections of questions. Guide your kids to read clues and check the correct answer box. Help them become better at solving geometry problems.
Perimeter Parking Worksheet
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Knight and Pawn Worksheet
Knight and Pawn Worksheet

Knight and Pawn Worksheet

This tracing worksheet teaches kids about chess. They trace the dotted lines to match pieces, names and symbols to the correct chess piece. Questions at the bottom test their understanding. It's a simple exercise for a fun way to learn.
Knight and Pawn Worksheet
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Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 64
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 64
Adding up to 1000 with Regrouping: Page 64
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Adding up to 1000: Page 18
Adding up to 1000: Page 18

Adding up to 1000: Page 18

Adding up to 1000: Page 18
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Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 57
Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 57
Adding up to 1000 Without Regrouping: Page 57
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Grade 3 Sight Words: Clean
Grade 3 Sight Words: Clean

Grade 3 Sight Words: Clean

Grade 3 Sight Words: Clean
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Shape recognition is a crucial component of early mathematics education, particularly in Grade 3. At this stage, children enhance their understanding of geometric concepts, which serves as a foundation for higher-level math skills. Recognizing and understanding shapes helps students develop spatial awareness, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities—skills that are essential not just in math, but across the curriculum.

Moreover, shape recognition supports language development, as children learn to describe shapes, compare them, and articulate their attributes. This fosters communication skills, allowing children to express their ideas clearly. It also encourages creativity, as they explore how shapes combine to form new figures, laying the groundwork for future studies in geometry and even art.

For parents and teachers, engaging children in shape recognition activities can be a joyful experience, transforming learning into an interactive and exciting process. Activities involving real-life applications, such as identifying shapes in the environment, not only reinforce learning but also strengthen parent-child or teacher-student relationships. Ultimately, prioritizing shape recognition will help children build confidence in their mathematical abilities, setting them up for success in future academic endeavors and real-world problem-solving situations. By caring about this foundational skill, adults invest in their children's overall cognitive development.