Year 2 Activities

 

 

 

Organizing your class

 

 
           

 
 


Deanna’s handout (given in class)

 

          1.  Outline

          2. Final exam terms outline of terms

          3. Chapter 1 conjecture sheet

4.   Chapter 2 conjectures sheet

          5.  Chapter 3 conjectures sheet

6. Chapter 4 conjectures sheet

7. Chapter 5 conjectures sheet

8. Chapter 6 conjectures sheet

9. Chapter 11 conjectures sheet

 

Connection to core learning goals and curriculum

 

 
 

 

 


Week 1 activities                            Week 2 activities

 

 

WEEK 1

 

 
 

 

 

 

 


Why Only Five- work with Platonic Solids     

 

Polyhedra formula investigation  

                          

 Solid Geometry

 

            Participant’s descriptions of solids                      Answers

           

 

GSP sketches by participants- need GSP to open 

                        1. Snead sketches  

                        2. Activity 4 sketches

                        3. Activity 3 problem 2  

                        4.Cone net  

                        5. Cone net

                        6. Cylinder

                        7.  Dawn’s work

                        8. Dilated pyramid

                        9.”Feeble oblique cylinder”   

10. Hexagonal prism directions

11.Hexagonal pyramid .  

12. Pent based pyramid copy 

                        13 Oblique pyramid.  

                        14. Pyramid

15.  Rectangular prisms -3 different views  .   

16 Right cylinder

17. Sphere .  

18. Square based pyramid

19. Square based pyramid .  

20 Pentagonal Pyramid

21. Triangular based pyramid directions .  

22.  Cone net

 

Cycloid activity and Pick’s Theorem activity – workbook activities (cannot post)

 

GSP work  for cycloid and Pick’s theorem- need GSP to open

                        Ken’s work for Pick’s theorem

                        Patti’s work for cycloid investigation

                        Work for cycloid investigation

                        Ken’s work for cycloid

 

Tilings  packet

            SOME WEBSITES       related to tiling

            GSP work  for tilings- need GSP to open

                        Sneadtiling             Wildthing                  Bearit               Deannatile

 

 

 

Shadowy measurements- workbook activity (cannot post)

 

GSP work  for shadowy measurements- need GSP to open

Shadowy measurements-line of best fit

                        Demo 1-snowman in the sun

                        Demo 2-R2D2 in the sun

 

Ladder activity - workbook activity (cannot post)

 

            Ken’s GSP work

 

Fractals

 

            Created fractals in GSP- need GSP to open

 

            1 Gasket fractal.

 

            2 Snowflake curve

 

 

WEEK 2

 

 
 

 

 

 


Right triangle trigonometry worksheet

 

 

Modeling a Pantograph

                        Some websites:  

                                    http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/geo/panta/panta.html

 

                        Some GSP work –need GSP to open

                                    Ken’s work

                                    Kevin’s work

 

Ken’s power point presentation

 

Work with Miras

 

 

Writing up your own activity and teacher notes

 

 

 

Some Activities with teacher notes created by participants

 
 


 (under construction)

 

 

 

 

Group members

Ken, Bill, Mona, Julia,  Sandy

 

Trevor, Peggy, Jan

Jen, Lauren, Myrna, Maryanne,  Lois, Ron

 

Patty, Mary, Kevin

Deanna, Krys, Dawn

Kathy, Tanya, John

Content

Working with Kites

Working with a cycloid

Working with 3-dimensional solids

Triangle work

Connecting geometry and algebra

Parallel lines and transversals

Grade band

 

 

 

 

 

 

Materials

Kites lesson notes

 

Lesson plan, The Cycloid

GI Lesson

Buried treasure

Guidelines for lesson

Teacher notes

 

Kites activity sheet

GSP work for cycloid

Handout 1

 

Handout 2

 

 

Comparing and contrasting area and circumference

Angles formed by intersecting lines lesson

 

 

 

What’s wrong with this perpendicular bisector?

 

GSP work-carrying out activity

GSP work-graph

 

 

Math 590 students

Lesson Plans

 

 
 

 


                       

 

 

Powerpoint of work done by Myrna and Lois

Ken’s work

      Lesson plan-constructing points of concurrency

      GSP work for the Nagel point (need GSP to open)

 

Bridging the gap between inductive reasoning and deductive reasoning

-lessons created by participants

 

 
 

 

 

 


Studying an annulus

                       

Lesson plans for Isosceles trapezoids

 

           

 

 

Some cool websites found by participants:

 

 
 

 

 


Pattern block hinged mirror activity (shared by Myrna)

                        http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=6409

 

 

 

 

Pictures of the workshop