Chester the Clown. I am starting a unit on the circus to incorporate geometry in a different way.  Before school started I sent out a puzzle for my students to assemble of this circus scene to give them a clue about what we would be studying. This week I’m giving them the Chester the...
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Students listening intently as everyone shares their unique city. One of our final projects for the year was Geo-Cities.  Our students made cities to show their understanding of geometric terms but in a way that even if they didn’t understand the terms beforehand,  they did afterward. Parallel, perpendicular and intersecting always confuse kids so...
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To help my students understand the relationship  between flat shapes like squares, triangles and rectangles and cubes, pyramids and prisms we build them!  Using gum drops, marshmallows and toothpicks they create started with cubes.  Once they were built, it gave us an opportunity to talk about sides, corners and edges and the how they...
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