Figuring in football
http://illuminations.nctm.org/LessonDetail.aspx?ID=L211
A lesson plan for grades K–1 Mathematics
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 3.03: Compare and contrast geometric figures.
- Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving spatial visualization.
Kindergarten
- Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
- Objective 3.02: Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences).
- Objective 3.04: Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.
