Geometry & Measurement for Early Childhood Education Majors
Course Materials/Resources

The resources provided here for Gordon State College's Math 3002 course are a growing collection of activities, notes, problems, websites, and other resources you may need for this class. They are provided here for your convenience.

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General Course Materials
CCSSM Domains Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP) Common Core SMP Video SMP Child-Friendly Standards, SMP Teacher Behaviors
Analyzing Cognitively Demanding Tasks Worthwhile Mathematical Task Analysis Guide CCSSM Connections for Geometry and CCSSM Measurement, CCSSM Website National Library of Virtual Manipulatives, Polypad-Virtual Manipulatives-Mathigon
Geometry Word Scramble Problem Solving Strategies Activities GeoGebra Website Math For Love Website
Euclidea Construction Puzzles Glossary of Geometric Vocabulary Terms The Dragonfly Problem Youtube
Van Hiele Levels 0-4 of Geometric Reasoning
Unit III Measurement Test Formulas Common Algebra Mistakes PPT, Sample 2nd Grade Homework Graceful Tree Problems, pdf Formulas & Facts for the Final Exam, pdf
Unit I-
Introductory Geometry
Unit II-
Congruence and Similarity with Constructions and Transformations/
Coordinate Geometry
Unit III-
Measurement (including Perimeter, Area, Pythagorean Theorem, Surface Area, & Volume)
Projects/
Technology
The Make the Shapes Tasks Quick Images Metric & Customary Measurement Facts, Powers of 10 (FSU) NCTM's Illuminations Project, pdf
Match My Grid Constructions 101 Metric Prefix Practice/Riddles Learner.org Project, pdf
Where’s Abe?  Constructions 102 The Hexagon Pattern Task CCSSM Project, pdf
Tangram Activities Math Open Reference (Construction Animations) Look-Alike Rectangles Activity pdf Teaching Children Math Articles Project (Note: Articles are available in Desire2Learn.), pdf; References for Articles
Pattern Blocks Activities Quadrilateral Discovery Tasks The Earth Belt Task, pdf Children's Mathematical Literature Project, pdf
Polygon Capture Game Directions, Polygon Capture Game Property Cards Centers of Triangles: Centroid, Orthocenter, Incenter & Circumcenter Universal Proportional Thinking Activity, pdf Geometry Assessment Interview Project
Measuring Segments and Angles Measuring Segments and Angles Tangram Tasks, Tangram Discoveries Worthwhile Mathematical Tasks (WMT) Project, WMT Rubric
Geometry Assessment Interview Project Geometry Assessment Interview Project Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, pdf Lesson Plan Project, pdf
School of Education Lesson Plan Format
Positional Descriptors Activity Transformations (Revisiting Symmetry), pdf Ordering Rectangles pdf Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) Project
Van Hiele Levels of Geometric Reasoning Reflections and Rotations, pdf The Home Improvement Tasks, pdf  
Angle Sums/Angle Measures in Other Shapes/Properties of Quadrilaterals & Categorizing Quadrilaterals; Triangle Angle Sum Theorem Practice Dilations Activity, pdf Changing Garden Top 10 Technology Items
Which One Doesn't Belong (Shapes) Mobius Strip Activities, pdf Geoboard/Dot Paper Activity, pdf; Dot Paper; Virtual Geoboard (from the Math Learning Center Website) Internet Math for Middle School Students
The Geometry of Letters, Alphabet Symmetry Paper Folding Constructions, pdf Geo-Explorations: Triangles & Parallelograms pdf Mobile Device Resource List
3-D Vocabulary Terms, Solid Geometry on Mathsisfun Website Maths Is Fun Geometry Index Finding Nonroutine Areas Tasks Recommended Websites
Counting Parts of Solids Tesselations on Wikipedia Finding Nonroutine Triangle and Polygon Areas Tasks Common Core Math Worksheets
3-D Shape Sort Shape Cards, 3-D Shape Sort Property Cards Tesselations on Mathsisfun.com The Fencing Task Flocabulary Website
What’s in the Lunch Bag? Activity Julian Beever's Pavement 3-D Chalk Drawings Crazy Cakes Activities (Area, Symmetry) NRich Website
Building Pentaminoes & Nets of an Open Cube   Pythagorean Theorem Problems, pdf Common Core GA, Common Core US
Block Structures Unit II Practice Test/Study Guide, pdf Pythagorean Water Demo YouTube Note: Many of the activities here were adapted from a fantastic mathematical methods book by Suzanne H. Chapin and Art Johnson, including Building Pentaminoes & Nets of an Open Cube (Unit I), Analyzing Block Structures (Unit I), Alphabet Symmetry (Unit II), and Reflections and Rotations (Unit II). The full APA citation for this excellent math ed resource is:
Chapin, S. H., & Johnson, A. (2006). Math matters: Grades K-8 understanding the math you teach. Sausalito, CA: Math Solutions Publications.
  Unit II Practice Test/Study Guide Solutions, pdf Colin Dodds Pythagorean Theorem Song YouTube
Dr. Clement's Introductory Geometry PPT   Xs and Os Game
    Painted Cube Challenge
Unit I Practic Test/Study Guide, pdf   Researching Box Designs pdf
Unit I Practice Test/Study Guide Solutions, pdf   The Tennis Can Task, The Sphere in the Cylinder Task
   
    Unit III Practice Test/Study Guide, pdf Bridges in Mathematics
    Unit III Practice Test/Study Guide Solutions, pdf  
    Formulas & Facts for the Unit III Exam