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Kippie Roberts, a math teacher at
FD Roberts Middle School, developed strategies that help students
see the importance of mathematics in everyday life. Her projects
were created to bridge the gap between abstract and concrete math
concepts for her students since the students find it hard to understand
many of the concepts related to geometry and feel that math is not
important. Ms. Roberts created digital images of concrete objects
around campus, such as buildings, driveways and roads, and trees,
and dissected them into as many geometric shapes as possible. She
then developed units in which her students would have to identify
the shapes, rearrange the shapes to see if additional objects could
be made from each individual shape, and compare the properties of
the first shapes to the newly created shapes. The students will
then have to determine if the new objects they created will be as
sturdy and efficient as the original objects the shapes were constructed
from.
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