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Soups and Such Café

published on: 2/28/2003

Contributing Teacher(s): Ann McCoy

Subject Area: Math/Geometric/spatial--Geometry, Special Education/Curriculum Accommodations

Grade Range: Upper Elementary (4-5)

Materials Needed:

• Activity sheet
• letter patterns

Instructional Strategy: Prior Knowledge & Connections

Process Standards:

• Goal 1.10 apply acquired information, ideas and skills to different contexts as students, workers, citizen
• Goal 1.6 discover and evaluate patterns and relationships in information, ideas and structures

Content Standards:

• Mathematics 2. Geometric and spatial sense involving measurement (including length, area, volume), trigonometry, ...
• Mathematics 4. Patterns and relationships within and among functions and algebraic, geometric and trigonometric conc...

  G.L.E.:
  

  • Ma - GS - 3 - A - 04
    (Geometric and Spatial Relationships, Apply transformations and use symerty to analyze mathematical situations, Use transformations on objects, Grade 4.)

  Time Allowance: NA

  Description: This activity is used within a geometry unit and provides hands-on practice with slides, flips, and turns.

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  Classroom Component: Implementation:

• This unit would be used within a unit on geometry.
• Discuss and demonstrate the flip, slide, and turn geometric transformations.
• Provide tag board cut-out shapes for the students to practice slides, flips, and turns.
• Provide verbal reminders of how the transformations work:
  • Slide - Have them picture themselves sliding down a slide. They look the same and are still right-side up - all that has changed is their location.
  • Flip - Have them imagine cooking a pancake. You cook one side and then pick it up, flip it over and cook the other.
  • Turn - Have then imagine they are playing basketball and need to pivot. They hold one foot in place and turn their body.
• Have the children look around the room and beyond to find examples of how these transformations are used to create patterns and designs.
• Distribute letters and activity.
Evaluation: Evaluation is conducted informally through teacher observation as the students conduct the activity. Their answers to the activity questions will provide a more formal evaluation. Soups ''N Such It''s Tuesday noon at the Soups ''N Such cafe, When a customer walks in and ruins everyone''s day. It''s old Mr. McGruder with a frown on his face As he walks towards his table at a slow, steady pace. For old McGruder as everyone knows, Is fussy and picky from head to toe. "This is too hot or too cold or too spicy!!! My drink is too warm and my food is icy!!!" Everyone runs to hide to avoid the task Of being the one who has to ask........ "May I take your order, PLEASE????"

You knew this wasn''t going to be your day when your mom fixed her "special" oatmeal for breakfast but nothing prepared you for this!!! The job of waiting on Mr. McGruder falls on you and you approach his table with dread.

He orders alphabet soup which seems easy enough but as you begin to walk away be calls you back with some special instructions.

"I''ll take that soup," he says with a grin, "but I want only certain letters to be put in." "They must look the same after a slide, turn, AND flip. So find only those letters before I take a sip." With a worried frown you head for the kitchen to begin sorting alphabet soup letters. You wonder if Hugh''s Hamburger Haven needs help .... Soups ''N Such
• Use the letter cut-outs to determine which letters look the same after a flip, slide, or turn. (Mr. McGruder will be satisfied with either a horizontal or vertical flip and with any turn.) Complete the chart below.

  Same after flip	Same after slide	Same after turn

• Based on his rule that only letters which look the same after a flip, slide, and turn may be in his soup, which letters should you select for the picky gentleman''s lunch?
Teacher Notes: The style of type used determines which letters work. The answers below are based on using the letters attached to this lesson. Same after a slide: Letters in this category have translational symmetry. All letters work. Same after a flip: Letters in this category have reflectional or line symmetry. The line of symmetry may be vertical or horizontal. A B C D E H I M O T U V W X Y Same after a turn: Letters in this category have rotational symmetry. The letter will look the same after a turn of 180 degrees or less. H I N O S X Z So, since only letters in all 3 lists go in the soup, only O, H, I, and X will be in the soup. What do you think of this lesson? SuccessLink needs to know. Click HERE.

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For additional information contact :
Ann McCoy
Clinton Middle
Clinton
(660) 885-3353
EMAIL: amccoy@clinton.k12.mo.us