Sorting Cards - Non-Identical Shapes
Early learners sort shape cards onto mats, working with pairs of clearly different shapes such as star and circle, square and heart, or pentagon and hexagon.

- Year levels
- Pre-school (Early Years), Foundation–Year 1
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Early Math, Maths
- Topic
- Sorting Cards, Sorting Non-Identical Shapes
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9MFSP01 — sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within…
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About this resource
Sorting Cards - Non-Identical Shapes is a maths resource for early learners to practise sorting different non-identical colours and shapes. Students will sort a variety of colourful cards featuring distinct shapes onto corresponding activity mats. This hands-on resource helps build early maths skills. Teachers can implement this activity in small groups or assign it as individual seatwork. The pages have minimal visual distractions so students can focus on the sorting task. To prepare the resource, teachers simply laminate the cards, cut them out, and attach velcro. The mats can be hole punched and compiled in a binder for reuse year after year. This activity develops critical thinking and pattern recognition abilities. Sorting Cards engages young learners while supporting foundational maths skills. It is an engaging and reusable tool for Early Years, Foundation and Year 1 classrooms.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Recognise and name common shapes
Sort shapes by matching them to the correct mat
Teaching tips
The directions offer three assembly formats; the file-folder and binder versions use Velcro dots, and the book version needs coil binding or rings.
Skills covered
Visual discrimination — students tell apart two different shapes and sort each card to its match
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9MFSP01 — sort, name and create familiar shapes; recognise and describe familiar shapes within objects in the environment, giving reasons
Core concepts
Shapes
Sorting
Pentagon
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