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GENERIC EVALUATION CRITERIA20010-2015MathematicsGeometry

R-E-S-P-O-N-S-ECRITERIA NOTESYes No N/A

I. INTER-ETHNICThe instructional material meets the requirements of inter-ethnic: concepts, content and illustrations, as set by West Virginia Board of Education Policy (Adopted December 1970).

II. EQUAL OPPORTUNITYThe instructional material meets the requirements of equal opportunity: concept, content, illustration, heritage, roles contributions, experiences and achievements of males and females in American and other cultures, as set by West Virginia Board of Education Policy (Adopted May 1975).

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INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ADOPTION: 21st CENTURY LEARNING EVALUATION CRITERIA

GENERAL EVALUATION CRITERIA20010-2015MathematicsGeometry

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I=In-depth A=Adequate M=Minimal N=Nonexistent I A M N

In addition to alignment of Content Standards and Objectives (CSOs), materials must also clearly connect to Learning for the 21st Century which includes opportunities for students to develop

A. Learning Skills

Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills/ Rigor and Depth of ContentContent is presented in a way that deepens student understanding through engagement in meaningful, challenging mathematics that builds on prior knowledge and promotes connections among mathematical concepts.

Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills /Development of Conceptual UnderstandingLearning opportunities require students to develop their own viable mathematical understandings and help them build connections between mathematical ideas.

Information and Communication Skills/Mathematical Language Appropriately introduce and reinforce in multiple ways all necessary terms and symbols.

Personal and Work Place Productivity Skills

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B. 21st Century Tools

Problem-solving tools (such as spreadsheets, decision support, design tools)

Communication, information processing and research tools (such as word processing, e-mail, groupware, presentation, Web development, Internet search tools)

Personal development and productivity tools (such as e-learning, time management/calendar, collaboration tools)

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INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ADOPTION: 21st Century Learning EVALUATION CRITERIA

The general evaluation criteria apply to each grade level and are to be evaluated for each grade level unless otherwise specified. These criteria consist of information critical to the development of all grade levels. In reading the general evaluation criteria and subsequent specific grade level criteria, e.g. means “examples of” and i.e. means that “each of” those items must be addressed. Eighty percent of the combined general and specific criteria must be met with I (In-depth) or A (Adequate) in order to be recommended.

20010-2015MathematicsGeometry

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I=In-depth A=Adequate M=Minimal N=Nonexistent I A M N

For student mastery of content standards and objectives, the instructional materials will provide students with the opportunity to

4. Multimedia

1. offer appropriate multimedia (e.g., software, audio, visual, internet access) materials.

2. provide a website which provides links to relevant sites as well as lesson plans, student activities and parent resources.

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3. Integrate technology seamlessly when appropriate to model mathematical situations, analyze data, calculate results, and solve problems.

B. Scientifically-Based Research Strategies

1. Consistently require students to link prior knowledge to new information to construct their own viable understandings of mathematical ideas.

2. Consistently provide opportunities for students to solve complex problems that have multiple entry points and the possibility of multiple solution processes.

3. Consistently provide opportunities for students to communicate their mathematical thinking processes to others orally, in writing, or pictorially.

4. Routinely require students to develop and defend mathematical conjectures, arguments, reasoning and proof.

5. Provide opportunities for the students to be involved in investigations that enable them to make connections among mathematical ideas.

6. Expect students to develop multiple representations of the mathematics in order to depict reasoning used to explain real world phenomena or solutions to relevant problems and move fluently between those representations.

7. Present varied teaching models with emphasis on differentiated instruction in content, process, and product.

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C. Critical Thinking

1. emphasize questioning models to promote higher order thinking skills based on depth of knowledge.

2. Consistently require students to discuss mathematics with each other and with the teacher, make arguments, conjecture and reason, and justify/clarify their ideas in writing and orally in precise mathematical symbols and language.

3. Present real world application that is current, engaging, integrated throughout the instruction, and promotes and develops critical thinking.

D. Life Skills

1. address life skills (e.g., reading road maps, using reference tools, researching, reading a newspaper, using want ads, completing an application, applying the interview process and goal setting).

2. address habits of mind activities (e.g., literacy skills, interpersonal communications, problem solving and self-directional skills).

E. Classroom Management

1. include opportunities for large group, small group, and independent learning.

2. Consistently require students to explore mathematical ideas, individually and collaboratively, while integrating the process standards (see Section I of this rubric).

3. provide suggestions for differentiated instruction (e.g., practice activities, learning stations, assessment, lesson plans).

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F. Instructional Materials

1. Are organized according to WV content standards or other increments that allow students to investigate and explore major mathematical ideas; provide a variety of lessons, activities, and projects from which to choose; and emphasize connections between mathematical ideas.

2. Consistently integrate tasks that engage students and invite them to speculate and hypothesize, are open-ended, and require them to determine appropriate strategies.

3. Provide teachers with guiding questions to aid students’ development of mathematical discourse to further mathematical understanding.

4. Provide additional resources that are organized in a way that is easy to access and use.

5. Include various instructional models to address varied learning styles of students.

6. Provide extensive and varied opportunities to differentiate individual needs for skill-building.

7. Provide supplemental materials for intervention and enrichment.

8. Provide teachers with support to properly integrate the process standards using the available resources.

9. Include a teacher resource that builds content knowledge for the teacher.

10. Spiral previously taught skills and strategies with new content.

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G. Assessment

1. provide assessment formats commensurate with WV assessment programs (e.g., WESTEST, NAEP, State Writing Assessment, informal assessments, PLAN, EXPLORE, ACT and SAT).

2. provide opportunities for assessment based on performance-based measures, open-ended questioning, portfolio evaluation, rubrics and multimedia simulations.

3. provide benchmark and ongoing progress monitoring.

4. provide rubric-based differentiated assessment.

5. provide an electronic system for managing assessment data to facilitate the implementation of tiered instruction

6. integrate student self-assessment for and of learning by providing tools and organizers that are linked to clearly identified learning goals.

7. Integrate formal and informal means of assessment in the materials for diagnostic, formative, and summative purposes.

8. include various types of assessments: performance tasks, multiple choice, short answer, and free response.

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H. Process Standards

1. Problem Solving: Provide frequent opportunities for students to formulate, grapple with, and solve complex problems that require a significant amount of effort and have multiple viable solution paths.

2. Communication: Routinely challenge students to communicate their thinking to others orally, in writing, and/or pictorially, using precise mathematical language.

3. Reasoning and Proof: Provide frequent opportunities for students to complete mathematical investigations with and without technology; develop conjectures, mathematical arguments and proofs to confirm those conjectures.

4. Connections with Mathematics: Consistently establish connections, and provide opportunities for students to establish connections, among mathematical concepts and their real-world applications.

5. Representations: Provide frequent opportunities for students to develop multiple representations of the mathematics in order to depict reasoning used to explain real world phenomena or solutions to relevant problems and move fluently between those representations.

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SPECIFIC EVALUATION CRITERIAMathematicsGeometry

Geometry objectives are designed for students who have completed the objectives for Algebra I. Study includes experiences and activities that foster in students a feeling for the value of geometry in their lives. Emphasis is placed on development of conjectures by inductive processes using manipulatives and computer software. Cooperative learning groups are particularly effective in allowing students to become proficient in analyzing conjectures and in formulating both formal and informal proofs. Emphasis should be placed on connections to other branches of mathematics and other disciplines, and on workplace applications. The West Virginia Standards for 21st Century Learning include the following components: 21st Century Content Standards and Objectives and 21st Century Learning Skills and Technology Tools. All West Virginia teachers are responsible for classroom instruction that integrates learning skills, technology tools and content standards and objectives.

Standard 3: GeometryThrough communication, representation, reasoning and proof, problem solving, and making connections within and beyond the field of mathematics, students will

analyze characteristics and properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and develop mathematical arguments about geometric relationships,

specify locations and describe spatial relationships using coordinate geometry and other representational systems, apply transformations and use symmetry to analyze mathematical situations, and solve problems using visualization, spatial reasoning, and geometric modeling.

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For student mastery of content standards and objectives, the instructional materials will provide students with the opportunity to

A. Geometry

1. Investigate representations of geometric figures, such as points, lines, planes, segments, rays, and angles pictorially with proper identification and distinguish between undefined and defined terms.

2. differentiate and apply inductive and deductive reasoning, justify conclusions in real-world settings.

3. use the basic concepts of symbolic logic including identifying the converse, inverse, and contrapositive of a conditional statement and test the validity of conclusions with methods that include Venn Diagrams.

4. investigate, validate, communicate, and apply conclusions by constructing logical arguments using both formal and informal methods with direct and indirect reasoning.

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5. construct formal and informal proofs by applying definitions, theorems, and postulates related to such topics as

complementary, supplementary, vertical angles, angles formed by perpendicular lines, and

justify the steps. Provide opportunities for student exploration using interactive websites or software.

6. investigate, compare and contrast, and apply the relationships between angles formed by two lines cut by a transversal when lines are parallel and when they are not parallel, and use the results to develop concepts that will justify parallelism.

7. investigate relationships, and develop multiple conjectures and justify the congruence relationships with an emphasis on triangles and employ these relationships to solve real world problems.

8. use interactive geometric software and/or manipulatives (geoboards or patty paper) to investigate, develop, and identify general properties and compare and contrast the properties of convex and concave quadrilaterals

parallelograms rectangles rhombuses squares trapezoids

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9. identify a real life situation that involves similarity in two or three dimensions; pose a question; make a hypothesis as to the answer, develop, justify, and implement a method to collect, organize, and analyze related data; generalize the results to make a conclusion; compare the hypothesis and the conclusion; present the project numerically, analytically, graphically and verbally using the predictive and analytic tools of algebra and geometry (with and without technology).

10. investigate measures of angles and lengths of segments to determine the existence of a triangle (triangle inequality) and to establish the relationship between the measures of the angles and the length of the sides (with and without technology).

11.verify and justify the basis for the trigonometric ratios by applying properties of similar triangles and use the results to find inaccessible heights and distances. Using the ratios of similar triangles to find unknown side lengths and angle measures, construct a physical model that illustrates the use of a scale drawing in a real-world situation.

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12.use applets, interactive software or websites to investigate, model and apply the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse to solve real-world problems and derive the special right triangle relationships (i.e. 30-60-90, 45-45-90).

13.use of strategies (graphic organizers foldables, interactive geometric software, websites or applets) to investigate measures of angles formed by chords, tangents, and secants of a circle and draw conclusions for the relationship to its arcs.

14.explorations to determine angle measures of interior and exterior angles; given a polygon, find the length of sides from given data; and use properties of regular polygons to find any unknown measurements of sides or angles.

15.develop properties of tessellating figures and use those properties to tessellate the plane.

16.derive and justify formulas for area, perimeter, surface area, and volume using nets and apply them to solve real-world problems.

17.consistently apply concepts of analytical geometry such as formulas for distance, slope, and midpoint and apply these to finding dimensions of polygons on the coordinate plane.

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18.construct a triangle’s medians, altitudes, angle and perpendicular bisectors using various methods; and develop logical concepts about their relationships to be used in solving real-world problems.

19.create and apply concepts using transformational geometry and laws of symmetry, of a

reflection, translation, rotation, glide reflection, dilation of a figure, and develop logical arguments for congruency and similarity.

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20.compare and contrast Euclidean geometry to other geometries (i.e. spherical, elliptic) using various forms of communication such as development of physical models, oral or written reports.

21.approximate the area of irregularly shaped regions based on the approximations and the attributes of the related region, develop a formula for finding the area of irregularly shaped regions. Plan, organize and present results by justifying conclusions.

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