When it comes to learning math, I think that many students
believe that they’ll just be dealing with numbers, but that’s very much not the
case. Math has a lot of very content specific vocabulary, especially in
geometry. Parallelogram, trapezoids, the different kinds of angles, and even
shapes they knew about before, they need to define and redefine in math terms.
The strategy I found this week was the Frayer Model. 
It’s a graphic organizer
that’s meant to build vocabulary. In the middle, students write the key word,
then write the definition, facts and characteristics, examples, and
non-examples in the boxes around the middle. I found it interesting that the
Frayer Model included a section for non-examples, but that could end up being
really helpful because two things can be really similar but have slight
differences and it would be good to note that in a non-example. For example,
parallelogram and rhombuses are very similar but the slight difference is that
a rhombus is always equilateral. (166)
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