Exploring Area

We will be spending the next two weeks working with area. This will prepare us for Surface Area and Volume. Most of the homework will be worksheets.  This term the notes are lilac.

1/29  Area of Rectangles and Squares (and Triangles)
1/30  Area of Parallelograms and Trapezoids
2/01  Quad Area Quiz, Discovering Polygon Area

2/04  Polygon Area
2/05  Mixed Practice with Area
2/06  More mixed practice with area
2/08  Big Area Quiz,  Nets of Cubes with Polyhedra

Changing the schedule for the snow day

Our schedule is off a bit due to the snow day on the 14th. The test is now on Monday, January 28th.  

After the test we will move on to area.

Polygons and Quadrilaterals

We came back from vacation and played with polygons. We will focus on a specific kind of polygon, the quadrilateral. The next three weeks will be spent learning about quadrilaterals. Here is the proposed syllabus.  Most of the homework will be worksheets though there will be book problems occasionally.

1/04  Polygon Exploration (no homework)

1/07  Finish polygon notes, Quadrilateral Exploration
1/08  Parallelograms
1/09  "Special" Parallelograms: Rectangles, Rhombuses, Squares
1/11  Quad Quiz 1

1/14  Trapezoids: general and isosceles
1/15  Algebra and Quadrilaterals
1/16  Graphing Quadrilaterals (graphing lines)
1/18  Quad Quiz 2,  End of Term 2

1/21  Martin Luther King Day (no school)
1/22  Mixed Review of Quadrilaterals
1/23  Matho and notecards
1/25  Quad Test