IDEAL SCHOOL SUPPLY Math Discoveries About Geometry, Grades 3 to 4 ID-7840

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Your third and fourth grade students will explore sides, angles, area, and perimeter of plane figures as they model them on a geoboard and form them with color tiles. They will discover relationships between edges and volume in rectangularprisms as they build them with cubes, and will come to know the shapes of the faces and other attributes of geometric solids as they sort, classify, and solve ”mystery solid” puzzles. Intriguing story problems will invite youngsters touse their developing geometry skills to solve them. These hands-on explorations actively engage students in doing mathematics, which is emphasized by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). 64 pp