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Conditional Statement Story
If you give a geometry student a project…
The purpose of this project is for you to see how “if-then” reasoning (also known as cause and effect) is used in our everyday lives. You will write a story along the lines of the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura JoffeNumeroff. Your story should be written using “if-then” statements (the “then” statement of one sentence should be the “if” statement of the next sentence). The story must make sense. The opening hypothesis and the last conclusion must fit together to make a sentence (which makes sense). Your story must be made into a book with illustrations. You may draw pictures, or cut out of magazines, or use pictures from the internet. There should be one statement with illustration per page, and at least 8 “if- then” statements.
Be creative!! It should be appropriate and appealing to a child, (under 12)
Your grade will be determined by the following rubric:
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Fewer than 4“if –then” statements / 4 “if-then” statements / 5-7 “if-then” statements / All 8 “if –then” statements
No color, messy, not bound together, not appealing to child / Unappealing in more than two criteria: color, type, binding, neatness, topic / Meets basic appeal, but missing one or two of the criteria / Colorful, typed, bound, neatly drawn, topic appeals to a child
Not following a logical pattern at all, and missing a hypothesis or conclusion / More than half of “if-then” statements are not in a logical pattern or the hypothesis and conclusion do not follow a logical pattern / Most of the “if-then” statements are logical, hypothesis and conclusion are logical / All “if-then” statements follow a logical pattern, hypothesis and conclusion complete and logical
Multiple errors in spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure / Many errors in either spelling, punctuation, or sentence structure / Few errors in spelling, punctuation,
sentence structure / Correct spelling, punctuation, and sentence structure
“If –then”
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