This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Which of the polygons are right triangles? Choose a measuring tool to help you determine this. These are right trianglesThese are not right triangles F...

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Look at each figure. Read each of the descriptions. Place an X in the box if it appears to describe the figure pictured. A. B. C. D. 4 vertices Four si...

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Say what a trapezoid is in your own words. Compare your definition with a partner. Is this parallelogram a trapezoid according to your definition? Expl...

This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Draw at least two examples and two non-examples of each of the quadrilaterals defined below. Parallelogram: A quadrilateral with 2 pairs of parallel si...

This 3 lesson instructional unit helps students investigate many different aspects of triangles including basic properties of triangles, building other shapes from triangles, the dependence of the third side length on the other two (Triangle Inequality Theorem), and the Sierpinski Triangle fractal. The lesson includes student activity sheets and links to interactive applets.

The purpose of this task is to give 4th grade students a problem involving an unknown quantity that has a clear visual representation. Students must understand that the four interior angles of a rectangle are all right angles and that right angles have a measure of 90_ and that angle measure is additive.

This is a 4th grade unit interview assessment for geometry.  Instead of giving a "standardized assessment", this is an interview that covers all of the 4th grade geometry standards.  You as a teacher have a chance to see each individual student work through problems and have them explain their thinking.  It is extremely easy to spot where their deficiencies are and be able to give them extra help in those areas.

This is a way to include Project Based Learning (PBL) with 4th-grade geometry standards.  This is a project students have a chance to work on individually as well as collaboratively to show real-world application of their skills and knowledge learned through the unit.

This google slide show is to be used as a routine in grade 4 during the third quarter. Students will be given time to notice and wonder about each slide, with their thinking guided toward geometry. Discussions will promote precise geometry vocabulary and connections between images.

This 20-day module introduces points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles, as well as the relationships between them. Students construct, recognize, and define these geometric objects before using their new knowledge and understanding to classify figures and solve problems. With angle measure playing a key role in their work throughout the module, students learn how to create and measure angles, as well as create and solve equations to find unknown angle measures. In these problems, where the unknown angle is represented by a letter, students explore both measuring the unknown angle with a protractor and reasoning through the solving of an equation. Through decomposition and composition activities as well as an exploration of symmetry, students recognize specific attributes present in two-dimensional figures. They further develop their understanding of these attributes as they classify two-dimensional figures based on them.

Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

(Nota: Esta es una traducción de un recurso educativo abierto creado por el Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York (NYSED) como parte del proyecto "EngageNY" en 2013. Aunque el recurso real fue traducido por personas, la siguiente descripción se tradujo del inglés original usando Google Translate para ayudar a los usuarios potenciales a decidir si se adapta a sus necesidades y puede contener errores gramaticales o lingüísticos. La descripción original en inglés también se proporciona a continuación.)

Este módulo de 20 días introduce puntos, líneas, segmentos de línea, rayos y ángulos, así como las relaciones entre ellos. Los estudiantes construyen, reconocen y definen estos objetos geométricos antes de usar su nuevo conocimiento y comprensión para clasificar las cifras y resolver problemas. Con la medida de ángulo que juega un papel clave en su trabajo a lo largo del módulo, los estudiantes aprenden cómo crear y medir ángulos, así como crear y resolver ecuaciones para encontrar medidas de ángulo desconocidas. En estos problemas, donde el ángulo desconocido está representado por una letra, los estudiantes exploran ambos midiendo el ángulo desconocido con un protractor y razonamiento a través de la resolución de una ecuación. A través de actividades de descomposición y composición, así como una exploración de la simetría, los estudiantes reconocen atributos específicos presentes en figuras bidimensionales. Desarrollan su comprensión de estos atributos a medida que clasifican las figuras bidimensionales basadas en ellas.

Encuentre el resto de los recursos matemáticos de Engageny en https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

English Description:
This 20-day module introduces points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles, as well as the relationships between them. Students construct, recognize, and define these geometric objects before using their new knowledge and understanding to classify figures and solve problems. With angle measure playing a key role in their work throughout the module, students learn how to create and measure angles, as well as create and solve equations to find unknown angle measures. In these problems, where the unknown angle is represented by a letter, students explore both measuring the unknown angle with a protractor and reasoning through the solving of an equation. Through decomposition and composition activities as well as an exploration of symmetry, students recognize specific attributes present in two-dimensional figures. They further develop their understanding of these attributes as they classify two-dimensional figures based on them.

Find the rest of the EngageNY Mathematics resources at https://archive.org/details/engageny-mathematics.

In the game Polygon Capture, students select polygons based on specific attributes as associated with angles of the polygon and sides of the polygons.  During the activity, students will be presented with situations they may not always encounter in geomoetry.  For instance, instead of being asked to select "all polygons with right angles" and "all polygons with 4 equal sides" they may be asked to select "all polygons with at least one right angle" and with "no parallel sides."

I used this task with my math intervention group of seventh graders that were shown to have a deficit in Geometric Shapes. Students worked in pairs to solve the tasks and then compared with the other groups when complete. Students critiqued the reasoning of others and looked for similarities and differences in how they solved the tasks. After each group had an opportunity to speak with a different group, we went through the two tasks together.

In these two geometry activities students explore the properties of triangles, discover what shapes triangles can form, and investigate what shapes can form triangles. Each activity includes a student recording sheet, extension ideas, and questions for students. Cataloged separateley within this site are the Patch Tool and the related How Many Triangles Can You Construct? activity.