Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Playing "Guess My Rule"

We learned a new game in math today and we loved it! It was called "Guess My Rule". In this game, we had to identify common attributes of different shapes.

One player comes up with a secret rule for what shapes are allowed to go inside the circle. That player puts two shapes (on paper cards) in the circle that are the same in some way and 'fit' their secret rule. (for example, shapes with four corners, or shapes with 3 sides, etc...)
The other player has to see if their shapes 'fit' in the circle to figure out what the secret rule is. We had a great time, here are some of us hard at work today...

Meryl's Secret Rule today was: "shapes with four corners"
Mia's secret rule was:"shapes with four sides"
Chloe's secret rule was: "shapes with 2 sides"
Kristy's secret rule was: "shapes with 3 corners"

Seth's secret rule was: "shapes with no corners"

Denis' secret rule was: "shapes with corners"
Aliana's secret rule was:"shapes with 3 corners"
Jadea's secret rule was: "shapes that are curvy"
Grayson's secret rule was: "shapes with no corners"

We are learning that Geometry can be a lot of fun! :)

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Great teaching. You both are awesome teachers :)

Mrs. Costiloe said...

I think it is wonderful when my 6 year old starts explaining Geometry to me. It is amazing what these little minds absorb- especially with teachers who truly care! Thank you for all your hard work!