1.3 What is a widget continued

1. Do now: Quiz 15 minutes

2. Guided practice page 51 1-21.

3. Homework help. Remember worksheet 1.3 is due tomorrow!

What is a Widget?

Do now: Think-Pair-Share: Read page 47 then with a partner answer question 9 on page 51.

1. Meaning of the word "Counterexample."

2. Volcabulary reveiw: Right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles, vertical angles, linear pair of angles, complementary angle and supplementary angles.

3. Classwork quesitons 1 through 21 .

4. Homework 1.4 practice your skills.

1.2 Cool Pool

Do Now: While I am grading your homework due today, please review 1.2 "Cool Pool" on page 38 in your textbook.

1. We may go over the homework if the class wants to.

2. Protractor review.

3. Incoming angles and outgoing angles.

4. Cool Pool worksheet

5. Questions 1 through 14 on pages 42 and 43 as time permits.

6. Homework: 1.2 Practice your skills worksheet. Probably due Wednesday.

1.1 Building block of geometry continued

1. Do Now: A think-pair-share. Make a Frayer Model of "Congruent Segments." Remember the Frayer model we made for "point." The word or phrase goes in the middle, the around it are the definition, characterisics, example and non-example. Look at page 31 in the text book.

2. Direct Instruction on geometry symbols.

3. Distribute cm graph paper. Do problems 7 and 12, 15, 16 and 17 on page 33. Try to fit every question on one sheet.

4. Homework help. Have a nice weekend!!!

September 10th, 2009

Do now: Think-Pair-Share: What are the three building blocks of geometry? Please read page 28 in your textbook. Talk with you partner and think: Are there any other "building blocks" to geometry? Does anyone know another word we can use for "building block?"

1. Direct instruction: Frayer model of the words "point," "line," "plane," "collinear," "coplaner,"
"line segment," "endpoint," "congruent segments," "midpoint," and "bisects."

2. Classwork: problems 1-4, 8, 10, 18-20.

3. Homework: Practice your skills worksheet, 1.1. Please notice that this file contains 8 worksheets, all covering chapter one. These 8 worksheets will be your homework over the next two weeks. 1.1 is due MONDAY. You will need a ruler and graph paper to do some of the problems in worksheet 1.1.

September 9th, 2009

Hi Everyone! For our lesson today:

1. DO NOW: Think-pair-share: Why is geometry important? For the first 10 minutes of class please work with your partner and come up with reasons why geometry is important.

2. Direct Instruction: What is a protractor? How do we use it?

3. Direct Instruction: How do we label angles?

4. Inclass worksheet.

5. Homework:

June 10th, 2009, Tessellations

Please explore the following webpages. Try to create your own tessellations. I will post a collections of the best ones here.

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/tessellate

http://www.tessellations.org/tessellation-applet.htm

http://www.coolmath.com/tesspag1.htm

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/poincare/poincare.html

http://euler.slu.edu/escher/index.php/Hyperbolic_Geometry