Saturday, January 24, 2015

Week 4 - Raffle and Geometry! Free Math Quizzes and Project Ideas

This week's FREE Common Core Math Quiz domain is Geometry for grades 3-8. They will be added onto last week's domains in the same document.
Follow the links below the Raffle to download your grade level Quiz! (3-8)

The Raffle Winner from Week 3 is Ana Ward, Congratulations!!!
I will be contacting you by email with your $25 TpT Gift certificate.
If you didn't win this time, come back next week to try again!


Raffle Week 4 - Math Assessment Bundle!
...including the Common Core Posters for all Standards, the Assessments with Learning Goals and Scales for all standards, and the Student Portfolio Pages. Winners will be notified by email and listed in the blog post for the following week. You will be able to chose the grade level you need (3-8), so you can enter the raffle any week, or every week to win!

The easiest way to keep track of the weekly Raffles is by following Mrs. L's Leveled Learning blog on Blog Lovin', by email Newsletter, or by Facebook.

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Click on the links below for this week's Common Core Domain Geometry!
Each Quiz has one math problem for each Common Core standard in that domain. The number corresponds to the standard number. Each problem has the learning goal stated to help kids focus on the goal and make the connection between the quiz, and their work in the standards. 


As a visual-spatial thinker, I always found geometry really fun and easy to teach because I could SEE what was being described. The biggest challenge for me and some of my students was the vocabulary! Understanding how the visual representations translate into verbal descriptions, and the huge array of terms for every figure, can be a struggle to memorize. I decided to have my students engage with the vocal by using their imaginations and artistic abilities to create Geometric Kingdoms! This project can be easily modified to focus on the specific Geometry standards for each grade level.

Here's the assignment:

1. Create a map for you Geometric Kingdom, incorporating all of the geometry vocabulary listed below. SKETCH some ideas on the back of an 11x17 paper, and draw the final map on the front side. COLOR if you have time!

2. Your kingdom may include buildings, parks, stores, homes, attractions, landscape features, etc. You may want to organize your objects into the categories based on the vocabulary terms. (Ex. Symmetry Carnival, Angles Park, etc.)

3. You must SHOW and LABEL all of the words in the places where they are represented on your map.  (Use your math book, internet, dictionary, etc. to help with definitions and examples.)

Here is the list of terms in the categories we defined:

Transformations (3) reflection (flip), translation (slide), rotation (turn)

Symmetry (3) line of symmetry, rotational symmetry, reflectional symmetry

Lines (9) ray, perpendicular lines, diagonal, line segment, intersecting lines, skew lines, parallel lines, perpendicular bisector, midpoint.

Angles (12) right, supplementary, vertex, angle bisector, acute, obtuse, degrees, vertical, adjacent, complementary, straight, central.

Triangles (6) obtuse, right, acute, scalene, isosceles, equilateral.

Circles (5) chord, sector, diameter, arc, radius.

Shapes (4) semicircle, similar, congruent, plane.

Polygons (9) polygons, regular polygons, rhombus, square, rectangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, quadrilateral, tessellation.

Word Cells (7) penta-, hexa-, hepta-, octa-, nona-, deca-, dodeca-. (The word cells can be applied to polygons –flat shapes, or polyhedrons – solid shapes).

         


     5th Grade Quiz pdf file     6th Grade Quiz pdf file 

             


      7th Grade Quiz pdf file   8th Grade Quiz pdf file

             



Thanks for stopping by.
Check back next week for this week's raffle winner 
and the last raffle and quiz domain!

3 comments:

  1. I use the goal grading system and my kiddos and I talk about how to get the highest goal we can and what we need to have in our work to get us there.

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    1. That's awesome Jennifer! Do you find that it motivates them to accomplish more? Did you choose to do this or did your district require it?

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  2. I cannot wait to share this site with my teachers! :)

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