Middle Grades Mathematics Story
Description:
This assignment was completed as a project for the Middle Grades Mathematics course in the MAT program at GCSU. As a final project, students were asked to find a math standard from grades 4-8 and create an engaging story students, while also implementing the chosen standard. For our story, we chose to write about a young priate on the search for his hidden birthday treasure. In order for him to find all the X's on the map, he had to learn how to read a coordinate grid, and be able to explain the properties of the given polygon hints.
All of the artwork created for this assignment were designed by me.
Below is the list of standards we used for the design of this story. We used the Georgia Standards of Excellence to find our desired standards for this assignment.
MGSE5.G.1 Use a pair of perpendicular number lines, called axes, to define a coordinate system, with the intersection of the lines (the origin) arranged to coincide with the 0 on each line and a given point in the plane located by using an ordered pair of numbers, called its coordinates. Understand that the first number indicates how far to travel from the origin in the direction of one axis, and the second number indicates how far to travel in the direction of the second axis, with the convention that the names of the two axes and the coordinates correspond (e.g., x-axis and x-coordinate, y-axis and y-coordinate).
MGSE5.G.2 Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
MGSE5.G.3 Understand that attributes belonging to a category of two-dimensional figures also belong to all subcategories of that category. For example, all rectangles have four right angles and squares are rectangles, so all squares have four right angles.
MGSE5.G.4 Classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties (polygons, triangles, and quadrilaterals).