Text Set

My text set is going to focus on a MGSE6.G.1 of the 6^th grade Georgia Standards of Excellence for mathematics. The Georgia Standards of Excellence for mathematics has 5 domains: ratios and proportional relationships, the number system, expressions and equations, geometry, and statistics and probability. My text set will be orientated in the geometry domain, which is represented by the “G” in the standard’s abbreviation, MGSE6.G..1. MGSE6.G.1 states, “Find areas of right triangles, other triangles, quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes; apply these techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems”.

I have not really started looking for any resources to put into my test set, but an idea that I have is for the video maybe from School House Rock or something along those lines to talk about different shapes, different types of triangles, or area. Others ideas would maybe be a story about area and the its relationship with different shapes from The Story of Mathematics website from Carlee’s blog. For the audio I was thinking maybe a podcast, Ted Talk, chant, etc. about about finding the area using different shapes. I do not really have an idea for what texts I would want to bring in. I do not have any ideas for the two text sources yet. Something that I am trying to keep in mind is that when looking for the the texts each of them need to be interesting and catch the student’s attention, so it will support the lesson and benefit the student.

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