Provide hands-on activities for practice and mastery. Check for understanding of concepts and skills by using relevant standard materials, i.e. worksheets, text problems, workbooks, teacher prepared exercises, etc.
Students create riddles using sufficient conditions.
Objective: Strengthen students' understanding of sufficient conditions.
Activity: Students create riddles using sufficient conditions. Each student draws from a cup the name of a shape written on a piece of paper (either a rectangle, a rhombus, or a square). The student then creates a riddle about the shape they have drawn using sufficient conditions (i.e., I am equal but not always right. What am I?). Each student reads their riddle to the class while the remaining students attempt to answer the riddle correctly. Students use a computer program to construct the special quadrilaterals by using the sufficient conditions. They complete a worksheet over the computer activity.
Assessment: Accuracy of the riddle and participation in the activity. Completion and accuracy of the computer worksheet.