This Friday the hallways of our school are going to be transformed into a Geometry Museum. Parents have been invited to take a walk around our gallery to see all of the interesting and creative work that students have done.
As a staff we decided to have math as a focus this school year to help us increase student learning. The first thing that we did was have a 'Math Assembly' which was extremely successful and resulted in some amazing conversations between student and teachers alike. There is no question that everyone in our school learned from this activity.
Here is a link to the post I did on the 'Math Assembly': Math Assembly: A Success!!
The next area we decided to focus on was Geometry and to have teachers look at the big ideas in the curriculum for their grade. We took part in a PLC Day where we discussed where we were in regards to our math goals for the year and to move forward to the next part of our plan.
It was amazing to listen to the discussion and to hear the enthusiasm of our teachers as they brainstormed what direction we should be headed in with our geometry goals and student work. From the discussion came the idea to pull from the Arts Curriculum and the Mathematics Curriculum for our next focus.
THE IDEA
Turn our school into a geometry museum for a gallery walk.
THE RESULTS
Every teacher and student would dive into the curriculum and produce a piece of work that was cross-curricular. Parents would be involved by coming into the school and seeing what their children have created.
Some of the resources we used are listed below:
- Guide to Effective Instruction: Geometry and Spacial Sense K-3
- Guide to Effective Instruction: Geometry and Spacial Sense 4-6
Once the Geometry Museum and the gallery walk is complete I'll share the results!
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