Standards+and+Intro

= __**Geometry through Literature**__ =

**MRC. Students will enhance reading in all curriculum areas by:** **a. Reading in All Curriculum Areas: Read a minimum of 25 grade-level appropriate books per year from a variety of subject disciplines and participate in discussions related to curricular learning in all areas & Read both informational and fictional texts in a variety of genres and modes of discourse** **(Cox, 2008)**

**M6P4. Students will make connections among mathematical ideas and to other disciplines.** **a. Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas.** **b. Understand how mathematical ideas interconnect and build on one another to produce a coherent whole.** **c. Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics.** **(Cox, 2005)**

**M6M2. Students will us appropriate units of measure for finding length, perimeter, area and volume and will express each quantity using the appropriate unit** **a. Measure length to the nearest half, fourth, eighth, and sixteenth of an inch.** **b. Select and use units of appropriate size and type to measure length, perimeter, area, and volume.** **c. Compare and contrast units of measure for perimeter, area, and volume.** **(Cox, 2005)**

**Topic Description:** Through this topic, we will be incorporating literature into the Georgia Performance Standard (GPS) for measurement in sixth grade. We will be focusing on measurement and the appropriate tools and guidelines to follow when discovering and learning about measurement. We will be using children’s books to introduce and give examples of different types of measurement. Students will be introduced to real-world applications for implications of measurement. This will allow them to see the importance and need to learn this topic. The specific mathematics that will be covered in this topic are area, perimeter, and volume of shapes. We will also be focusing on choosing appropriate tools and units of measure and using the appropriate measurement techniques. In regards to measurement units, we will specifically focus on measuring length to the nearest half, fourth, eighth, and sixteenth of an inch. Through the use of books in this topic we are using the GPS Process standard and reading across the curriculum to make the connection between mathematics and literature. Using literature as a tool for mathematics instruction will provide for entertaining ways to learn about topics in mathematics.

**The prior knowledge students need to have before beginning this topic:**
 * The students should be able to comprehend the literature in the books that are being used in the teaching. This is important because without these comprehension skills students may not be able to identify the mathematical content in the text.
 * Students need to have basic knowledge of measurement and their units. An example would be that a student should know that there are twelve inches in a foot
 * They need to be able to recognize a variety of shapes and their properties. An example would be that before learning how to find the area of the triangle they must be able to identify the base and height of a triangle.
 * Students should be able to compare and contrast different sets of data or ideas. This will be important when looking at the different units of measure for area, perimeter, and volume.