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Monday, March 9, 2015

Quadrilaterals


We began our lesson by playing Kahoot!  Our topic was "Quadrilaterals."  Each statement was to be answered with "Always," "Sometimes," or "Never."  This was intended to be a formative assessment that also got their brains working (hard to do when we have the Daylight Savings change).  The statements I gave to the students were:

  1. A square is a rectangle.
  2. A square is a rhombus.
  3. A rhombus is a parallelogram.
  4. A kite is a parallelogram when it is a rhombus.
  5. A rectangle is a square.
  6. A parallelogram has one pair of obtuse angles.
  7. A parallelogram is a rectangle.
  8. A rhombus is a square.
  9. A kite has four right angles.
  10. A trapezoid has no parallel sides.
  11. A quadrilateral has four acute angles.
  12. A trapezoid is a parallelogram.
After we finished our warm-up, we took some notes on quadrilaterals and their critical attributes.


To hear my lesson describing the critical attributes of quadrilaterals, parallelograms (rectangles, square, rhombus) and trapezoids, please watch the video:  Quadrilaterals.  After taking our notes, I gave each student a copy of "Quadrilateral Pieces" that I found in Navigating Through Geometry in Grades 3-5 from NCTM.  Then, using a page from our math textbook, students classified the quadrilaterals and placed them on a Venn-Diagram.


Finally, students went back to the Google Classroom, opened a form I had sent them, and answered:

Explain why the circle for parallelograms does not
intersect the circle for trapezoids.

Once the math lesson was complete, students got onto Think Through Math.  We have 5 weeks until our STAAR test, so students have 5 weeks to achieve their Think30!  The goal is going to Chuck E Cheese and a movie in May!


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