Drawing Stars & Building Polyhedra
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (779 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1593630662 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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As both a teacher and a student of concept mathematics, and a proponent of three-dimensional problem solving, I fully agree. Lessons are open-ended and allow for more advanced students to work independently on more difficult lessons; a real plus for the regular education classroom teacher with multiple mathematics groups.Drawing Stars and Polyhedra exhibits a level of creative giftedness often lacking in mathematics instruction. Christopher Freeman knows them as the door to mathematical motivation and imagination. This is a thinking book for student and teacher alike. --Tina Forester, TEMPO, Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented, Spring 2004 . The interdisciplinary connections and problem solving opportunities these forms present are limited only by the imagination. NCTM standards in the areas of numbers and operations, geometry, reasoning and proof, and connections are clearly addre
Great project and lesson for either Science or Math classes in upper Elementary or Middle School levels. I used this with my Gifted students at the Middle School level. They whined and complained at first but the culminating activity of making 3-dimensinal stars on plywood bases, material, and choice of yarns made them come around to enjoying the activity. Most students took theirs home.It seems that they were proud of their work.
Freeman is a regular presenter at the annual conventions of the National Association for Gifted Children. His books are the fruits of curricula he has developed for gifted children in these programs and in the regular classroom.All of Freeman's activities involve students in inductive thinking. He contributed a chapter on math curriculum in the NAGC publication Designing and Developing Programs for Gifted Stude
Students formulate a conjecture that uses the Greatest Common Factor to predict whether a particular star will be continuous or overlapping.Building Polyhedra: Students assemble equilateral triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, octagons, and decagons to form symmetrical 3-D solids called polyhedra. The book provides reproducible handouts of polygons to photocopy onto colored paper. They also assemble polygons into 3-D polyhedra and develop spatial intuition.Drawing Stars: Students develop a definition of star and find a procedure for drawing stars with seven, eight, nine, or more points. Using this book, students learn to draw stars with seven, eight, or more points, and formulate conjectures about their mathematical structure. Completed polyhedra make an attractive wall display.These activities meet four distinct NCTM standards.. This book allows students to experiment for themselves: Some combinations don't work, but students enjoy discoveri