Yes please!!

YESSS!!!!

And that falls right in line with the Van Hiele’s research - explore and describe and then attach the vocabulary after.

❤️ yes it’s the worst!!

That discuss and explore piece brings in the language to talk about what children are discovering.

Very beautiful - kids often naturally design with symmetry which I find fascinating!

I am super curious about your tile farm!

I hope you feel better soon! Rest up!

Love the connection to the face of a cube!

Beautiful!

I agree - this is so important in developing a robust and deep understanding of a shape.

Activities that ask students to describe, to sort, to categorize, to compare and contrast all help move students to a deeper understanding of shape.

Love that! And when a student says things like this isn’t a triangle it is a clue to their level of understanding. They are attending to the shape visually and as a whole vs analyzing its attributes. They haven’t attained the next level of understanding which is descriptive.

Exploration and hands on manipulation is so important!!

We tend to fall either into the loved geometry or didn’t love geometry camp. Theres isn’t much middle ground there!! Interesting … it was the one math class I almost failed!

Great seeing you even briefly in Atlanta!