Math questions
Each question must be 100 words or more.
question and answer format
not an essay
- What concepts do children learn by doing constructions? Explain your answer.
- Below are the 8th grade Common Core standards that focus on rotations, reflections, and translations. How would you teach this concept? Would you include manipulatives? Which ones? How would you assess student understanding?
Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.
8.G.1. Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations:
a. Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length.
b. Angles are taken to angles of the same measure.
c. Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.
- M. C. Escher was a famous artist who combined mathematics and art in his drawings. Research his art, and describe the different mathematical concepts involved in his work. What transformation was used. Explain.
- Why do children have difficulty with rotational symmetry? What methods can you use to help them understand rotational symmetry?
- Explain a math rotation in 100 words
- Explain a math tessellation in 100 words
- Explain geometry and analysis in 100 words
