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Nouns vs. Verbs

Some Nouns Perimeter Area Volume Sides Vertices Sphere Cone Cylinder

Rectangular Prism Triangular Prism Quadrilaterals

Rhombuses (Rhombi?) Parallelograms Trapezoids Rectangles Squares

Some Verbs Classify Compose Create Decompose Determine Solve Sort Summarize Use

Know/Understand/Do Recognize and draw shapes having

specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. [Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.] Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

First Grade

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How much time do you spend teaching vocabulary?

You put your hands up, numerator on top, denominator way down low.

Created by: Morgan Mills and Kristen Missouri State Student Teachers

Quadrilateral

Whats My Name? Perimeter Area Volume Sides Vertices Sphere Cone Cylinder

Rectangular Prism Triangular Prism Quadrilaterals

Rhombuses (Rhombi?) Parallelograms Trapezoids Rectangles Squares

What am I?

Find My Family

Source: Leslie Sallee

Frayer Graphic Organizer

Math Notebook

Games

Games Play speeds up the brains matura3on process since it involves the build-in processes of challenge, novelty, feedback, coherence and 3me. (Jensen, 2001)

The eec3veness of a game is enhanced when students actually help to design or construct it. (Wolfe, 2001)

Marcia Tate (2003)

I have who has?

I have who has?

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2.G.1 Recognize and draw shapes having

specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. [Sizes are compared directly or visually, not compared by measuring.] Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

Pattern Blocks

2.G.2 Partition a rectangle into rows and

columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.