Designing Spaces: Visualizing, Planning, and Building
Students use geometry to analyze buildings from around the world and design
model houses. While doing this, they explore properties of shapes and ways
to represent three-dimensional structures in two dimensions. Students focus
primarily on properties of sides and angles of quadrilaterals, as well as
getting a first introduction to area and perimeter. They then explore a collection
of 3-D shapes including prisms and pyramids.
NCTM Standard: Geometry
- Analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric
shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships
- Use visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling to solve
problems
NCTM Standard: Measurement
- Understand measurable attributes of objects and the units, systems, and
processes of measurement
- Apply appropriate techniques, tools, and formulas to determine measurements
Primary Mathematical Goals
- Make isometric and orthogonal drawings of three- dimensional shapes and
structures
- Identify equal and parallel sides and equal and right angles
- Use geometric terminology to describe three-dimensional shapes
- Identify properties of shapes
- Use a protractor to measure angles
- Measure a perimeter and estimating the area of a shape
