{"id":2022,"date":"2011-02-10T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T02:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2011-02-10T21:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T02:59:19","slug":"not-a-geometric-term-but-correct-nonetheless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/not-a-geometric-term-but-correct-nonetheless\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Geometric Term, But Correct Nonetheless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made up this game for my fourth graders to reinforce math vocabulary. I call it Quiz Show. Here&#8217;s how to play:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One player from each team goes and stands at the front of the classroom.<\/li>\n<li>I read a definition.<\/li>\n<li>The first kid to slap the floor and pop back up gets called on.<\/li>\n<li>That player gives me the vocabulary word that fits the definition. Correct: 1 point. Incorrect: 0 points, and the next person who hits the floor gets to answer, and so on.<\/li>\n<li>Next players go up.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat.<\/li>\n<li>Play continues to 10 points, or until math period is over and it&#8217;s time for snack, or until you guys are getting too rowdy and we need to bring it down a notch don&#8217;t blame me y&#8217;all were the ones who were making so much noise there are other classes in this building you know!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today we were doing some geometry review. You&#8217;ll need to know the following definitions for the next part to make sense: (1) <strong>face<\/strong>-the flat side of a 3D figure, and (2) <strong>edge<\/strong>-the line created where two faces come together.<\/p>\n<p>Me: <em>A [blank] is where two faces meet. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=1997\">Nowell<\/a>: <em>A kiss!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made up this game for my fourth graders to reinforce math vocabulary. I call it Quiz Show. Here&#8217;s how to play: One player from each team goes and stands at the front of the classroom. I read a definition. The first kid to slap the floor and pop back up gets called on. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/not-a-geometric-term-but-correct-nonetheless\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Not a Geometric Term, But Correct Nonetheless<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}