Looking at Composite Shapes Worksheet

Looking at Composite Shapes develops the reverse of shape building. Students inspect a larger figure, imagine boundaries that divide it into familiar forms, and draw lines to show those parts. Response prompts ask what smaller shapes are visible, encouraging multiple decompositions when more than one partition is possible. The example establishes that a composite is made from simpler shapes. Discussing different valid lines can show that the same whole may be analyzed in several geometrically correct ways.