Take-Home Math Shapes Grades 2-3 Author:Ann Roper Take-Home Math: Shapes, Grades 2-3 includes colorful , cut-out Tangrams, motivating hands-on activities, and a game to help children explore geometric shapes and what happens when they combine them. Perfect for at-school and at-home learning! Teachers can use the activities in learning centers and send them home with students as extensions of ... more »classroom lessons. Families can use the activities to give children extra practice with the skills they are learning at school or as part of a home-schooling program. The hands-on activities actively engage children in "doing mathematics," which is emphasized by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).« less