FTCE:Elementary Education K-6: Math Competency 1 of 5 Question and Answer 2023

Instructional Strategies for Teaching - Gives students the ability to identify appropriate instructional practices and provides ways to accomodate and meet student needs and differentiate and interest students. Cooperative or Collaborative Learning - Ways to organize the classroom, support and facilitate student development, and small groups given assigned roles or duties to perform during activities. Learner- Centered Instruction - Advocated and supported by the constructivist learning theory, based on the premise that the student activley constructs knowledge, not in a passive manner. Visualization (descriptive) - -can name and recognize shapes by their appearance. -sort, identify, and describe shapes; manipulate physical model; see different sizes & orientations of the same shape. - build, draw, make, put together, and take apart. Analysis (analytic) - Identify (properties) between different shapes is able to focus on all shapes within a class and can use the models to define, measure, observe & change properties. Informal deduction (abstract) - can recognize the relationship between and among properties of shapes or classes of shapes and follow logical arguments using such properties. Deduction - able to go beyond identifying characteristics of shapes and constructs proofs using postulates or axioms and definitions ( high school geometry course) Rigor - can work in different geometric or axiomatic systems (college-level geometry) Instructional Strategy - Students should have opportunities to answer questions involving classifying, hypothesizing, generalizing, convincing, analyzing