In this activity students will be working in a group of four to sort and classify plane polygon figures.
In this portion of the activity I am looking and listening to students using their geometry vocabulary of lines, shapes and angles. I walk around helping students flesh out their vocabulary of right angles, obtuse angles. One table is working on irregular shapes vs regular shapes. Another table is putting them in groups based on the numbers they found imprinted on them. I then ask them to see if those numbers mean anything related to the shapes. They found out they did.
Before I have my students reflect on the lesson I ask them to tell me what do they know about geometry - shapes, lines? I am prompting them to see if they will related their understanding to the activity.
The students who only talked about angles are at a basic level of understanding. The students who were organizing based on irregular and regular polygons were moving further ahead in their understanding. They had to use their understanding of angles first and then place the shape in the correct group.