The development of a strong geometry vocabulary will support a child when they are explaining their thinking and asking questions. You can help them to acquire these new words by talking about shape and size and space. When sorting the recycling ask them to describe the shapes of objects to you. Encourage them to use general descriptions like round, flat, box, ball, pointed, smooth. Also teach them and encourage them to use the more specific geometry words for shapes and solids like cube, sphere, circle, triangle, pyramid, prism, cuboid, edge.
You call a box a cuboid. That’s a funny word but it’s a geometry word. How many cuboids are in the cardboard recycling? Yeah, the toothpaste box is a long cuboid and the Weetbix box is more square. Is the egg box a cuboid?
