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Shape Makers: Developing Geometric Reasoning...

Shape Makers: Developing Geometric Reasoning...

Shape Makers: Developing Geometric Reasoning...

Shape Makers: Developing Geometric Reasoning in Middle School with The Geometers Sketchpad version 4 Prepare Your Students for High School Geometry You can use this exciting add-on module to teach your middle school students about classes of geometric shapes and better prepare them for success in high school geometry! Author Michael Battista has built what he calls the Shape Makers computer microworld, a series of explorations in which students develop dynamic mental models for thinking about geometric shapes and their properties. He introduces this curriculum with a compelling, research-based discussion of how students learn and how Sketchpad helps you enhance that learning process. Shape Makers harnesses Sketchpads dynamic power but doesnt require that students or teachers use all of Sketchpads tools and capabilities (although the opportunity to explore them is there). Each class of common quadrilaterals and triangles has a Shape Makers a Sketchpad construction that can be dynamically transformed in various ways but only to produce different shapes in the same class. There are:
  • Quadrilateral Shape Makers for squares, rectangles, parallelograms, kites, rhombuses, trapezoids, and general quadrilaterals
  • Triangular Shape Makers for general, isosceles, equilateral, and right triangles Using only Sketchpads Selection Arrow tool, students work collaboratively in pairs to measure and transform the Shape Maker on the computer screen in a variety of engaging contexts.
  • In Can You Make It? activities, students manipulate the different Shape Makers to make designs that reinforce hierarchical relationships among the figures.
  • In The Mystery of Polygon Flats activities, students use logic to discover which Shape Makers can "disguise themselves" as other Shape Makers. As they change a Shape Makers size, shape, or orientation, students see its measurements update continuously, giving them hundreds of continuous examples that lead intuitively to generalizations about the shape and its properties. Designed to replace or supplement the standard textbook treatment of geometry in middle school, Shape Makers can also be used to replace early portions of the high school curriculum. Shape Makers includes:
  • Blackline activity masters
  • Teachers notes with suggestions for homework, extensions, and assessment
  • CD in Windows and Macintosh formats containing all the pre-made sketches required in the activities and demonstration sketches

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