The unit Ruins of Montarek was developed to help students
- Read and create two-dimensional representations of three dimensional buildings
- Communicate spatial information
- Observe that the back view of a cube building is the mirror image of the front view and that the left view is the mirror image of the right view
- Understand and recognize line symmetry
- Explain how drawings of the base outline, front view and right view describe a building
- Construct cube buildings that fit two-dimensional building plans
- Develop a way to describe all buildings that can be made from a set of plans
- Understand that a set of plans can have more than one minimal building, but only one maximal building
- Explain how a cube can be represented on isometric dot paper, how the angles on the cube are represented by angles on the dot paper, and how the representations fit what the eye sees when viewing the corner of a cube building
- Make isometric drawings of cube buildings
- Visualize transformations of cube buildings, and make isometric drawings of the transformed buildings
- Reason about spatial relationships
- Use models and representations of models to solve problems
