Spatial Compose Shapes

Spatial Compose Shapes practice with teacher guidance, common slips, and next-step routes.

Core · Spatial Compose Shapes · Independent practice · Construction Grid

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Cover all lit squares with connected groups of 4. Side-touching joins; corner-touching does not.

0 of 12 squares covered.

Number of groups

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Print: Ages 8–9 · 3–5 min · core · constraints-elimination · independent-practice · evidence-proof

Watch: Watch whether the learner completes three four-square groups that stay connected by full sides and uses every lit square exactly once; the decisive evidence is the finished cell-to-group map, not the count alone.

Misread: A learner may count the 12 lit squares, repeat the group size 4, treat corner-touching as connected, or use a dark square. Check which rule the attempted grouping actually breaks before interpreting the number.

Curriculum: This task develops equal-group division and spatial reasoning on a square grid: the learner constructs an exact cover with connected groups of four, then relates 12 ÷ 4 to the resulting number of groups.