Bird Boxes Build Content Area Knowledge

Sherri Ann Cianca

doi:10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.19.1.0022

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Bird Boxes Build Content Area Knowledge

Author: Sherri Ann Cianca

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 19: Issue 1

Page(s):: 22–29

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5951/mathteacmiddscho.19.1.0022

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Subjects:: Grade(s) or Audience, All grades PK-12, Grades 6-8, Sixth, Seventh, Math Topic, Geometry, Shapes, Other Topic, Communication, Connections, STEM, Modelling, Reasoning/Sense Making/Proof

Keywords:: CCSS.Math.Content.7.G.A.2; CCSS.Math.Content.6.G.A.4

Communicating reasoning and constructing models fold nicely into a geometry activity involving the building of nesting boxes.

Contributor Notes

^*Sherri Ann Cianca, scianca@niagara.edu, is an associate professor of teacher education in the College of Education at Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. Her research and professional development interests include culturally responsive teaching, conceptual understanding, and curriculum development for all areas of elementary school and middle school mathematics.

(Corresponding author is Cianca scianca@niagara.edu)

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