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Clusters should not be sorted from Major to Supporting and then taught in that order. To do so would strip the coherence of the mathematical ideas and miss the opportunity to enhance the major work of the grade with the supporting clusters.
- Assessment Limits :
Items that require constructing lines of symmetry must specify the shape category with regard to the number of sides (quadrilateral, triangle, pentagon, etc.). Items that include trapezoids must consider both the inclusive and exclusive definitions. Items may not use the term "kite" but may include the figure. - Calculator :
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- Test Item #: Sample Item 1
- Question:
Select all the figures that have at least one line of symmetry.
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MS: Multiselect
- Test Item #: Sample Item 2
- Question:
How many lines of symmetry does the following figure have?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: EE: Equation Editor
- Test Item #: Sample Item 3
- Question:
A figure is shown.
How many lines of symmetry does the figure have?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: EE: Equation Editor
- Test Item #: Sample Item 4
- Question:
Which figure has a line of symmetry?
- Difficulty: N/A
- Type: MC: Multiple Choice
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MFAS Formative Assessments
Students are asked to determine if lines drawn on two-dimensional figures are lines of symmetry and to explain their decisions.
Students are asked to identify line-symmetric figures and then draw the lines of symmetry.
Students are asked to determine how many lines of symmetry a square has by drawing the lines of symmetry. Students then consider whether all quadrilaterals have four lines of symmetry.
Students are asked to use a line of symmetry to complete a drawing. Additionally, they consider how to describe a line of symmetry.
Original Student Tutorials Mathematics - Grades K-5
Help the Symmetry Sisters save the City of Symmetry Line and the State of Arithmetic from the Radical Rat in this interactive tutorial!
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Original Student Tutorial
Help the Symmetry Sisters save the City of Symmetry Line and the State of Arithmetic from the Radical Rat in this interactive tutorial!
Type: Original Student Tutorial
Problem-Solving Tasks
This activity provides students an opportunity to recognize these distinguishing features of the different types of triangles before the technical language has been introduced. For finding the lines of symmetry, cut-out models of the four triangles would be helpful so that the students can fold them to find the lines.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This task provides students a chance to experiment with reflections of the plane and their impact on specific types of quadrilaterals. It is both interesting and important that these types of quadrilaterals can be distinguished by their lines of symmetry.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This is an instructional task that gives students a chance to reason about lines of symmetry and discover that a circle has an an infinite number of lines of symmetry. Even though the concept of an infinite number of lines is fairly abstract, students can understand infinity in an informal way.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
Parent Resources
Image/Photograph
In this lesson, you will find clip art and various illustrations of polygons, circles, ellipses, star polygons, and inscribed shapes.
Type: Image/Photograph
Problem-Solving Tasks
This activity provides students an opportunity to recognize these distinguishing features of the different types of triangles before the technical language has been introduced. For finding the lines of symmetry, cut-out models of the four triangles would be helpful so that the students can fold them to find the lines.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This task provides students a chance to experiment with reflections of the plane and their impact on specific types of quadrilaterals. It is both interesting and important that these types of quadrilaterals can be distinguished by their lines of symmetry.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
This is an instructional task that gives students a chance to reason about lines of symmetry and discover that a circle has an an infinite number of lines of symmetry. Even though the concept of an infinite number of lines is fairly abstract, students can understand infinity in an informal way.
Type: Problem-Solving Task
Virtual Manipulative
This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.
Type: Virtual Manipulative
