Geometry+Performance+Unit

This unit was designed by Paula White, Anne Geraty, and Karen Heathcock as a performance-based unit for showing student growth. The geometry tasks are the pre-assessment. There are templates that are needed to implement Tasks 2 and 3 that can be downloaded from the Van de Walle site. The Getting Into Shapes unit is from M3 math. Those are my loose lesson plan notes to myself. The Van Hiele Unit is to provide a developmental level for the performance tasks. I further broke each level into numbers 1, 2, 3; 4, 5, and 6; and so on so that I could keep the data in a numerical form and compare post-assessment to pre-assessment data. Get in touch if you have questions. The Designing Mathematician is a unit using digital fabrication as a culminating project. Template for Task 2 and 3 of the geometry tasks can be found at http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_vandewalle_math_6/0,12312,3547876-,00.html, BLM 38 and 39. The shapes four use in the tiling task are a small diamond, chevron, and trapezoid. Drawings of them are on p. 346 of my edition of Van de Walle, Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, Teaching Developmentally (5th Edition). If you do not have the books and want the shapes, e-mail me and I will copy and send them to you.

Anne Geraty

Designing Mathematicians