Similarity

Our next topic is Similarity (things that have the same shape but different size). Most of the homework will be to finish the worksheet given in class (unless posted otherwise).

Given that MCAS is coming, we will move our weekly quizzes to Wednesdays and have MCAS Practice every Friday until the actual test.

4/28  Fraction Practice
4/29  Ratio and Proportion (notes and worksheet)
4/30  Intro to Similarity (notes and worksheet)
5/02  MCAS Practice

5/05  Similarity Practice
5/06  More complicated Similarity Practice
5/07  Similar Polygons
5/09  MCAS Practice

5/12  Special (similar) Right Triangles
5/13  More Practice
5/14  Similarity Quiz
5/16  MCAS Practice

We will have class three times during MCAS week where we will start learning trigonometry (our last topic). The Math MCAS for sophomores is on 5/21 and 5/22.  On Friday, 5/23 there will be a US History MCAS for Juniors.

Slight Change in Transformation Schedule

There is a slight change in the schedule.  On Tuesday, 4/08, instead of looking at Dilations, we will be working with isometries (really just another way to describe what we have been doing).  The homework will be a worksheet.

Transformation and Tessellations

For the next three weeks leading up to vacation, we will work with Transformations and Tessellations.  Transformations are ways of changing a figure by moving, reflecting, rotating, and dilating it. Tessellations are figures that "tile."  They fit together because of the transformations used to create them.

3/31  Intro to Transformations  HW finish worksheet
4/01  Computer Lab Intro (room 700)  HW finish lab
4/02  Translations  HW p.155-157/9-19,22-25,32,38,42-44,48
4/04  Quick Quiz, Reflections and Symmetry  HW p.286-8/8-19,21-31

4/07  Rotations  HW 11.8 Practice A Worksheet
4/08  Dilations   HW p.396-397/6-14
4/09  Mixed Transformations Practice  HW finish worksheet
4/11  Quick Quiz, start Tessellation Project

4/14  Work on Tessellation Project
4/15  Schindler's List In-School Field Trip (work on project if in class)
4/16  Present and pass in Tessellation Project
4/18  MFA Field Trip (Transformation in Art)

4/19-4/27  April Vacation