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Chapter 1: Tools of Geometry

 

What's Geometry Got To Do With It?

Check out the movies, the guidelines for the movie papers, and their deadlines at:  http://www.district87.org/staff/powelln/Geometry/GeomMovieEC.htm
Don't forget you have to turn in
four movie papers on
Moodle by the end of the semester!

 

Section 1: Patterns

Objectives: You will be able to…

  • use inductive reasoning to make conjectures
  • have a basic understanding of common sequences and patterns

Monday 8/24: Movie-The Shape of Cell Phones http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/hands-on_math/the_shape_of_phones/index.php

HW: TriBond worksheet

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Tuesday 8/25  and Wednesday, 8/26
HW:  Geometry in the Lab Worksheet and your Movie paper due on Moodle by midnight on Friday, August 28         

 

Thursday 8/27:
Objectives:    You will be able to

·       add terms to Sequences

·  use reasoning to problem solve with patterns

· make conjectures based on patterns that you observe

HW: pg. 7 #3-24 (every 3rd), 28, 29, 31, 32

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Section 2: Points, Lines and Planes    

Objectives:  You will be able to…

  • understand and be able to identify the four quadrants on a graph
  • understand and use basic probability  
  • understand the difference between a definition and a description
  • describe points, space, lines, and planes
  • define the terms collinear and coplanar

Friday 8/28:
Activity - Illinois Road Maps

HW
: pg.15 #3-39 (every 3rd), 42, 43-46 (determine which are collinear)

Section 3: Segments, Rays, Parallel Lines and Planes

            Objectives: You will be able to…

·           relate segments and rays to lines

·           recognize opposite rays                   

·           recognize parallel lines and planes              

·           understand skew lines   

Monday 8/31:     Pre-Test
            HW: pg. 20 #1, 4, 7, 10, ..., 32 (find the pattern to fill in the other problems in your homework
                      – or do them all if you can't find the pattern!), and 33

Section 4: Measuring Angles and Segments

       Objectives:     You will be able to…                    

  • find the length of a segment and the measure of an angle
  • understand and identify the three different types of angles
  • understand congruence of segments and angles

Tuesday 9/1:
Activity – Illinois Road Maps
                   HW: pg. 28 #1-14, 19, 24, 27, 28       

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Wednesday 9/2:  
Movie – Dancing Movie:  Paper due 9/9
http://stem.definedlearning.com/connect.cfm?asset_guid=c96488cc-8e7e-4f51-8e05-a397b3661f1e&blnSearch=1

Read these articles to compliment the video: 

·         Tango and the Geometry of the Dance http://tangomagdalena.com/tango_geometry_dance.html

·         Dance Geometry: http://www.openendedgroup.com/index.php/publications/conversations/forsythe/
Activity –
Paper Plate Angles
               HW: Pg. 29 #15-18, 26, 37, 45, 46

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Section 5: Good Definitions

Objectives: You will be able to…

  • understand the properties of good definitions
  • be able to right good, precise, and clear definitions
  • recognize midpoints, perpendicular lines, perpendicular bisectors, and angle bisectors

Quiz 1.1-1.4Thursday 9/3: Constructing!   

Activity - Protractor Golf

HW
: pg. 35 # 2-22, 35-41

Friday 9/4: HW: pg. 35 #23- 28

Monday, 9/7:  No School – Labor Day

Section 6: Basic Constructions – Photovoltaic Movie Paper due today on Moodle

Objectives: You will be able to…

  • perform four basic geometric constructions

Tuesday 9/8:  pg. 43 #1-18

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Finish your dance movie paper & upload it to Moodle!  Work on your Purple book Chapter Problems!

Section 7: Deductive Reasoning

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Objectives:  You will be able to…                  

  • Use deductive reasoning to solve problems and verify conjectures
  • Know and understand the properties of equality and real numbers
  • Know and understand he properties of congruence
  • Understand how certain angle pairs are related

 

Wednesday 9/9:  HW: pg. 50 #1-11 odd, 21, 24, 32, 33

Section 8: The Coordinate Plane

Objectives:  You will be able to…

  • use the midpoint and distance formulas to compute lengths and bisection points

Thursday 9/10: GRID DAY! 
(dance movie paper due tonight by midnight on Moodle)
            HW: pg. 56 # 7-25, 29-31

Friday 9/11: Review Day   Quiz 1.4 – 1.8
            HW: Sample Test

Monday 9/14: Review Day
        
Go over Sample Test
            HW:  Finish your Purple Book &
                      Study for the Chapter 1 Test

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MTuesday 9/14:

Chapter 1 TestPurple Notes Books due today!

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