Language Strategies in Teaching Mathematics

Workshop No. 5
WRITING ACTIVITY RELATED TO PROFILES

Group ______________

In this workshop, you will be:

 creating a sample response base on the assigned sample blank template; and

 writing a sample story out of the sample response created.

Directions. Complete the following profile of a rectangle. When you have completed the profile, write
several paragraphs telling someone what a rectangle is. To make the writing interesting, you might want
to imagine that you are a rectangle describing yourself to other geometric shapes, in this case triangle. This
type of writing is called Personification.

Type of Polygon:____________________

Number of sides: ___________________ Number of angles: ____________________

Total number of degrees:_____________ Number of degrees in each angle:________

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Formula for finding the perimeter:__________________________________________________________

Formula for finding the area:______________________________________________________________

Rectangular objects in our environment (seminar/workshop venue):______________________________

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Write instructions on how to use a rectangle to create other polygons.

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 Profile of a Rectangle
(Sample Story)

Meet a Rectangle

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