Increasing Spatial Reasoning Skills: Optimization of Measurement
In the past, when introducing the concept of Optimization of Measurement, students would complete a series of investigations involving different lengths of rope, fence, etc. and would make connections from the table of values and graph they would produce. While I still intend to do some of the investigations, I want to make them more real and especially more visual to hopefully help students better retain the knowledge and develop a deep understanding.
Here’s the animation created for maximizing the area of a 4-sided rectangular enclosure:
Stage By Stage PDF File
Here is a stage-by-stage PDF file for you to grab, if you’d like:
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I’m Kyle Pearce and I am a former high school math teacher. I’m now the K-12 Mathematics Consultant with the Greater Essex County District School Board, where I uncover creative ways to spark curiosity and fuel sense making in mathematics. Read more.
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