Geometry is everywhere. Try to incorporate real life examples of geometric shapes into your lessons. Here’s how to easily show your class some great photos:

Visit Flickr‘s advanced search at http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced.
Scroll down, and click on “Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content”.
Type in a keyword and run a search.
Sort by “Most relevant” or “Most interesting.”
Click the Slideshow button in the top right corner.

Here is an example of a slideshow, taken from an amazing minimalist photographer Zel Nunes:

Review the following information for the midterm: the processing strands, the content strands, components of numbers and operations, algebra, and geometry, assessment principles, 5 research models, strategies to use with English language learners, 2-D and 3-D shapes, vocabulary – (one-to-one correspondence, subitize, cardinality, compose, decompose, visualize, spatial sense, transform, estimate).

You can review the NCTM standards using this presentation. The standard is given, and the content-area strand is given on the following slide:

Midterm Study Guide NCTM Standards

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