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Solids All Around
A Reading A–Z Math Book • Grade 2
Word Count: 564
Math Book • Grade 2
Solids All
Around
Written by Adria Klein
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Table of Contents
Rectangular Prisms . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Senior Program Authors: Colleen Jones and Adria Klein
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Cubes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Spheres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Cylinders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Correlation
Solids All Around
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Rectangular Prisms
This solid is a rectangular prism .
You can see three of
face
its faces . But there are
three more faces that
you can’t see . Every
face
rectangular prism has
face
six flat faces .
base
Ruben and his friends are learning
about solid figures all around them .
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base
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The faces at the top
and bottom of this
prism are called
bases . Both bases
are the same size
and shape . The
bases are also
opposite each other .
edge
An edge is
where two
faces meet .
A rectangular
prism has
twelve edges .
How many
can you see?
Hardware Store
vertex
Issac looks for rectangular prisms in
the hardware store . He knows they have:
A vertex is where a
base and two faces
meet . The word
vertices is plural for vertex .
• six faces
• two bases that are opposite each other
A rectangular prism has eight
vertices . How many can you see?
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• twelve edges
• eight vertices
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Cubes
How many rectangular prisms
do you see?
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A cube is another type of solid
that is also a rectangular prism .
It has six faces, eight vertices,
and twelve edges .
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Toy Store
rectangular prism
cube
square
face
square
face
square
face
Tanya looks for cubes in the toy
store . She knows they have:
Look at the orange face on the
cube . It is a square . The blue and
yellow faces are also squares .
All six faces are squares with
equal edges all around .
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• six square faces
• eight vertices
• twelve equal edges
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Spheres
How many cubes can you see?
This solid is a sphere . It has no flat
faces, edges, or vertices .
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Sports Shop
curved surface
Leara looks for spheres in the
sports shop . She knows they have:
• no faces, edges, or vertices
A sphere has a curved surface
and nothing else . All points on
a sphere’s curved surface are the
same distance from the center .
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• a curved surface
• surfaces on which all points are
the same distance from the center
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Cylinders
How many spheres can you see?
This solid is a cylinder . It has two
faces . The faces are circles . No
matter how hard you look, you
will not find a single vertex on
a cylinder . Cylinders also have
curved surfaces .
circular face
curved surface
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House and Neighborhood
Cones
Ruben and Megan look for cylinders
and cones around their house and
neighborhood .
This solid is a cone . A cone
has only one face that is a circle .
They know cylinders have:
• two faces shaped like a circle
• no vertices
• curved surfaces
circular face
They know cones have:
• one face shaped like a circle
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Square Pyramids
How many cylinders and cones
do you see?
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This solid is a square pyramid .
It has four faces that are shaped
like triangles . They are connected
by four edges . It also has a face that
is shaped like a square . There is one
vertex on top of a square pyramid .
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Around the World
When a square pyramid is turned
over, you can see four more vertices
on the bottom . There are five vertices
in all, including the one on top . It is
a square pyramid because the face
on the base is square .
edge
squ
f a c a re
e
vertices
vertices
top vertex
There are four more edges that
connect the triangular faces to the
base . Square pyramids have eight
edges in all .
edge
Here’s an amazing group of
square pyramids! You would
have to go to Giza, in Egypt,
to find them .
tri
an
g
fa u l a
ce r
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u la r
t r ia n g
fa ce
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Draw lines to match each shape
to its name .
rectangular prism
cylinder
cone
square pyramid
sphere
Solids really are all around . Ruben
and his friends saw them in their
neighborhood and across the world .
Where can you find solids around you?
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cube
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