Useful Links
Teaching math video library
Incompetech grid paper maker
Quadrilateral Makers

Useful files:
Lesson Capture

Measurement and computation
Standard and non-standard units

Notes we took in class

Area and perimeter

7-triangles to print file.
Assignment: Collect some measurement data and graph.
Read about tricky triangles. The article is in the Content section of the D2L site.
Assignment: Sort the 7 triangles into a chart showing their properties.

Homework:

• Observe a math class in your field placement, and write a reflection on it.
• Write about properties that certain quadrilaterals have. An alternate web page with the same stuff.
• Work through the on-line symmetry lesson
• Draw in all the lines of symmetry you can find in these shapes. (Warning! there is at least one shape with no lines of symmetry)

Resources:

• Measured Shape Makers
• Class Power-point file

Homework:

• Check that a triangle's angles add up to 180 degrees in the way described here (way #1).
• Make a page showing examples and properties of parallelograms. More details here.
• Review and report on the textbook math topics from your field experience class.

Study for a short quiz:

• Triangle properties and special triangles
• Find and explain an area calculation on a grid
• Strategies for teaching about measurement (standard and non standard units, tools, etc--look at the notes we took last Saturday)
• Make a frequency bar graph using measurement data I provide
  

In class we will:

• Play the Shape Makers Challenge game
• Find shapes with different areas that have the same perimeters
• Rotational symmetry
• Guess my rule game
  

Polygon names
Decomposing shapes and angle sum
Composing shapes from triangles
Inquiry and collaboration (again)

Homework:

• Figure out who the hiding shapemakers are
• Decompose into triangles and find the missing angle
• Compose shapes from pattern blocks
• Lesson plan idea
  

Class powerpoint; .pdf version
Homework:

• Quadrilateral riddles
• Transformation practice
• Get me revised versions of your lesson idea if I have asked for them, and then turn it into a lesson plan draft. I'll want to talk to each of you individually at some point in the lesson plan writing process. Be thinking about when a good time for us to talk (online) would be.

You can e-mail questions and ideas at laurel@langfordmath.com while the uwrf e-mail is out of commission.

Notes from class are here
Homework:

• Quadrilateral riddles 2
• Describe multi-step transformations
  

Notes about medians:

• medians and how to teach them
• SMART Notebook tips
  

Boat in the river
Review 3D geometry stuff, 3D measurement.

Homework:

• Quadrilateral riddles 3
• Identify 3D shapes
• Count and measure properties of 3D shapes
  

Optional videos:

• models of fractions
• representations of fractions
• array models of fractions and equivalent fractions.

Homework:

• Show how to make 3 fractions that are equal to 2/3 using folded (subdivided) squares.
• Compare fractions assignment. You may wish to use one of these applets
  • fraction circles
  • fraction bars
    

Homework:

• Fraction homework
• 2-Set shape sorting homework
  

Homework:

• Simplifying fractions
• Practice with units: Do Primary Mathematics 3B pg. 64-65 (#11-19) (Show work, not just answers)
• Analyze a lesson
• Read the articles on D2L: Taking Time to Understand Telling Time and Tracking Time before our next Saturday meeting
  

Notes from class
Last assignment! (due Friday)