Built on the 4MAT Model
4MAT 4 Geometry is based on 4MAT®—one of the most popular instructional design methods in the world. 4MAT offers a proven process for ensuring that the information is delivered in a engaging and dynamic fashion. It encourages teachers to use a fuller array of instructional methods to promote student learning.
The 4MAT model will ensure that students are actively involved in learning as they move through the key content and concepts comprising a Geometry course. It appeals to a wider range of students as it reflects the latest research on how and why students learn. Many students do not learn through traditional instruction and 4MAT helps teachers reach out to more those students by giving students other ways of taking in information. And the 4MAT 4 Geometry Teachers Guide and Student Activity Book gives teachers hundreds of ideas and projects for getting students excited and engaged in learning.
A more efficient content coverage: From isolated topics to essential ideas
4MAT 4 Geometry covers all of the standard content from a geometry course, including logic and reasoning, justification and proof, geometric objects (points,lines and planes), concepts of measurement and dimension, parallelism and perpendicularity, congruence, circles, area and volume, and topics pertaining to polygons.
But the content coverage is not what makes this unique. It is the way in which the information is delivered. Rather than having students move from isolated topic to isolated topic, it uses key concepts to help forge stronger connections to learning.
With 4MAT 4 Geometry, students will maintain very high levels of involvement and participation. So, instead of having students just listen, read and practice, they will be actively involved, producing, moving, experimenting and applying learning in the classroom and to their lives.
Here are some adjustments that teachers must make to deliver instruction using 4MAT.
You’ll see more of this
- Motivational activities, that connect learning to the lives of students.
- Creative displays of student work and creative projects
- Active discussions among students of their diverse experiences
- Visual displays of key information and ideas
- Learning by doing
- Active projects, not seat work
- Key conceptual ideas, that tap into the interests of students
- Student initiated learning
You’ll see less of this
- Fragmented presentations that do not connect
- Skills and Drills
- Rote memorization
- Long lectures
- Knowledge for knowledge sake
- Teacher-Directed Learning
- Students asking: “Why do I need to know this?”
In a traditional classroom, students might be in their seats listening for 60-80% of the time. With 4MAT 4 Geometry, they become actively involved and lecture time is reduced in exchange for more interactive projects that let students learn by doing.
The 4MAT 4 Geometry program includes a Teachers Guide, Student Activity Book, Classroom Resource Kit and Training. The Student Activity Book includes hundreds of ideas for increasing student motivation and interest and more effectively conveying key geometric principles so that students will better remember what they learned, enjoy learning more.
Every unit includes a highly engaging connect activity, for raising student motivation and intrigue and meaningful real-life extensions of the learning, where the students must use their creative skills.
