Years 3–5

Shapes on dot paper

A house, a kite, a rhombus, a square stood on its corner — every corner on a dot. How many squares? A slanted side cuts a small rectangle exactly in half, so whole squares and half rectangles give the exact area, and the answer key marks the rectangles.

Sheet settings
Exercise
Dots along a side 6
How many 9
Dot spacing 8.0 mm
Curriculum profile

Applies suggested difficulty. Language and notation have their own settings. These are approximate teaching suggestions.

Suggested settings
Suggested learning sequence
Year or grade for suggested settings 3
Page
Large print, measuring tools at actual scale
Paper
Orientation
Ink
Name and date line
QR code back to this sheet
Add the answer key

Type the code from a printed sheet to get that exact sheet back.

Shapes on dot paper

Starting the generator…

It downloads once and then works offline: 53 handwriting models are in there.

The preview is exactly what comes out of the printer: the same code draws both.

What we are building

The same ground, on a tablet. The sheets are free and will stay free; the apps are how we make a living.

Building

Bubo

Reading, Year 1

The genetic method: hear the sound, meet the capital letter, read the first word. Czech and Slovak, with Bubo the owl.

Building

Numbernauts

Maths to twenty

Twenty-seven small games: counting, comparing, adding and taking away, number snakes and sum pyramids — and a robot you program a route for.

In testing

World Sort

Geography, once the numbers are easy

Sort countries by population or area, find them on the map, learn flags, capitals and anthems. For older children, and for adults.