Yesterday I ended up having a preschooler in my room while I was doing work after school. I put her on geometry pad and she did very, very, well on it. She had a lovely time making patterns and showing me her creations. This reminded me that if I give students free reign to choose a program, many choose this to play with and create patterns. I think given a chance, students enjoy creating their own original art. My geometry class will soon start learning about congruent triangles after they learn about classifying angles. I've decided they can make a small book using Book Creator on classifying triangles by sides or angles using the geoboard for the illustrations and they can put in the information using text. The next step in the process would be to have students using showme or other such program to make a presentation for the different theorems used in proving congruent triangles.
Each day I find more things I can do with the free apps I have. I will start this in about 2 weeks.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
idea for teaching 30/60/90 triangles.
I am going on memory right now and will do some additional research this summer but I seem to recall something on iTunes university about math in nature. This series shows real life examples of math in nature. Then they go on to show the mathematics behind it. I recall watching the episode on nautilus and if I remember correctly, it used 30/60/90 triangles. I am thinking I can show the episode on the nautilus and the math behind it. I can then have them create their own nautalis on the geoboard app on my iPad. This would happen toward the end of the triangle section.
I am adding to this as I was grading papers after having read a bit on fractions and realized I can use the Geoboard app to have students create representations for fractions such as what is 1/3 or 1/3 x 1/2. I can also use it to show the distributive property and multiplication of binomials. This opens more uses of the app for me.
I should be letting you know on Monday when I am offering my e-book for free.
I am adding to this as I was grading papers after having read a bit on fractions and realized I can use the Geoboard app to have students create representations for fractions such as what is 1/3 or 1/3 x 1/2. I can also use it to show the distributive property and multiplication of binomials. This opens more uses of the app for me.
I should be letting you know on Monday when I am offering my e-book for free.
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