Geofinity: An Adventure In Geometry For Primary Kids

<p>Geofinity is written for young mathematicians and their teachers. It is designed to make math enrichment fun for the student and easy for you, whether you are a regular classroom<br>teacher, enrichment coordinator, or teacher of the Gifted and Talented.<br><br>Each activity in this book is designed for hands-on math inquiry. Each is written to be developmentally appropriate yet challenging, and done with commonly available materials and<br>minimal preparation. The activities support the NCTM standards<br>for the strands of Geometry, Measurement, Problem Solving, and<br>Connections.<br><br>This book contains two Curriculum Contract Challenge Units (CCCU). Level One is designed for grades 1 through 3 and offers individual lessons in the language of geometry and definitions of<br>shapes, angles, and coordinates. Level Two is for grades 2 through 4, and offers additional lessons in parallel and perpendicular line segments and perimeter. Level Two also offers a more<br>detailed series of lessons in the vocabulary and definition of angles and polygons. Both levels include language arts objectives.<br><br>The activities are designed to be done independently by students but may be used in small group sessions. These units are ideal for providing differentiation to a variety of levels of students in your class. We suggest that you give students a pretest to see if they would benefit from the mathematical concepts and additional enrichment presented in this unit. The<br>Geofinity unit extends the curriculum, while still reinforcing state and national standards.</p>