3-5
Engage students in a study of triangles and their
properties.
3-5
The activities use The Three Little Pigs (Galdone 1970) and Cinderella (Grimm
and Grimm 1981) to motivate students to think and reason
mathematically.
3-5
Explore relationships among fractions through
work with the length model.
3-5
Explore
geometric solids and their properties.
3-5
Explore geometric shapes and concepts using a
virtual geoboard.
3-5
Learn
the major concepts such as using basic linear measurement, understanding and
creating scale representations, and exploring perimeter and area measurement.
3-5
Three
pieces of literature are used to teach geometry and measurement topics.
3-5
Investigate
fractional parts of the whole and use translations, reflections, rotations, and
line symmetry to make four-part quilt squares.
3-5
This applet allows for the exploration of the area of rectangles.
3-5, 6-8
To
find the area of a triangle, try to make a
parallelogram using a copy of the triangle.