Rascal Runs Away

Students develop geometry skills as they work with the Pythagorean Theorem. Teachers guide students to study and identify the elements of the Pythagorean Theorem equation and instruct them as they solve problems using concrete, pictorial, and abstract forms. At the concrete level, students use geoboards and Exploragons to solve their problems. This is followed by the pictorial level where students draw their models adjacent to word problems. At the abstract level, students substitute values into an equation to solve their word problems. We incorporate the three levels of instruction as we revise a narrative.