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Figuring in football

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A lesson plan for grades K–2 Mathematics

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In this lesson, one of a five-part unit from Illuminations titled “Mathematics and Football,” students examine the influences of pattern, symmetry, and design in the real world, by looking at a football field. A football field has numerous figures hat a young student can easily distinguish and others, which can be rotated or embedded, that may call on spatial skills of a more challenging nature. Students identify congruent and similar geometric figures and recognize that rotations, translations, and reflections do not change geometric figures.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.
    • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw and name parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons.
    • Objective 3.02: Identify, build, and name cylinders, cones, and rectangular prisms.
    • Objective 3.03: Compare and contrast geometric figures.
    • Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving spatial visualization.

Grade 2

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will perform simple transformations.
    • Objective 3.01: Combine simple figures to create a given shape.
    • Objective 3.02: Describe the change in attributes as two- and three-dimensional figures are cut and rearranged.
    • Objective 3.03: Identify and make:
      • Symmetric figures.
      • Congruent figures.

Kindergarten

  • Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
    • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw, and name triangles, rectangles, and circles; identify, build, and name spheres and cubes.
    • Objective 3.02: Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences).
    • Objective 3.03: Model and use directional and positional vocabulary.
    • Objective 3.04: Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.