Geoboard Workshop
Introduction: Back-to-back activity
- communicating mathematically
- listening, following instructions
- geometric shapes
- coordinate systems -- locating a point in a plane using two pieces of information
Squares on a geoboard (see also this page)
- measurement: area of square, rectangle, right triangle; length of line segment
- problem solving strategies--solve a simpler, similar problem; change your point of view
- extensions: representing irrational numbers as lengths; discovering Pick’s Theorem; Pythagorean Theorem
- fractions
- areas of irregular shapes
- line symmetry
- rotational symmetry
- congruent regions
- equal regions
- vocabulary: vertical, horizontal, congruent, equal, reflection, rotation, line of symmetry, angle of rotation
- extensions: halves, eighths