Friday, November 23, 2007

Finishing up with triangle information (for now)

We are finishing up with all of our techniques for describing triangles and will be having a test (rather than a quiz) on Friday the 30th.

11/19  Patty Paper Activity to explore the centroid and the incenter
11/20  The Centroid (from medians)  HW  finish packet
11/21  Half Day   A C F H  (no class)
11/22  Thanksgiving

11/26  Review everything we know about triangles
11/27  Matho and notecards for the test
11/28  Professional Development Day - no school
11/30  Triangle Test

After this we will work through creating our own theorems about
triangles.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

More with Triangles and Square Roots

It's a short week because of Veterans' Day and we will continue looking at triangles and the uses of squares and square roots.  We will continue to work on worksheets so finishing them is your homework every night.

11/12  Veterans' Day - no school
11/13  More practice with square roots
11/14  Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem
11/16  Quick Quiz

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Exploring Triangles

We are exploring the ways of naming triangles and some of the properties of triangles this week.

11/5  Classifying triangles  HW finish packet

11/6  Computer Lab explorations  HW none

11/7  Right triangle properties HW finish worksheets

11/9  Quick Quiz  HW practice with estimating square roots