Goodie, Goodie Gumdrops
by N.Z.

Goodie, goodie, gumdrops. Math is so tasty. I'll bet you do not know what I am talking about. Well, our teacher, Ms. Bluemel, gave each student in our class a baggie filled with twenty gumdrops. She also gave us a red dish, a baggie of toothpicks, and a checklist of geometry words.

We worked with a partner to build angles, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional items on the checklist. First we made angles. It was easy. Here are the angles we made: acute, right, obtuse, and straight.

Next, we made two-dimensional shapes. Two-dimensional shapes are shapes that are flat. We made triangles, squares, parallelograms, trapezoids, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons. That was pretty easy.

Now we get to the fun part! We made three-dimensional shapes. Those are the shapes that have space or volume inside of them. We built a triangular pyramid, a triangular prism, a square pyramid, a cube, and a rectangular prism. That was sort of hard.

We had to identify the vertex, edge, and face of our shapes too. After that Ms. Bluemel said we could get creative and build new shapes.

Goodie, goodie, gumdrops. Math is fun and tasty too.