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__Friday, December 4th__ Exploring the ways to find congruent triangles

__Thursday, December 3rd__ 4.3 SSS and SAS page 180 #1-16

__Wednesday, December 2nd__ Chapter Exploration page 162 #1-15

__Tuesday, December 1st__ go over triangle grid (pg167 #35) Assign p167-8 #36-43, pg 172 #1-10, 19-22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31-34, 37-40 Challenge: #35-36 Look ahead: notes 4.3

__Monday, November 30__ finished up GSP presentations assigned pg 166-7 #7-11, 23-26, 31-34

__Monday - Wednesday, November 23-25__ Reminder: Error reports for Chapter 2 due Tuesday, December 1st In class: Congruent vs Similar--quick review (discuss notation, compare/contrast, real world examples) Drawing Conclusions worksheet: go over 2-3 examples Homework: 4.1-4.2 notes, triangle grid (draw triangles, if possible for each) (left side: acute, obtuse, right; across the top: scalene, Isosceles, Equilteral)

GSP sketch presentations students choose to present their clock, daisy design or optical illusion to the class show any new findings in GSP and mathematical discoveries with class (email sketch or bring our sketch saved to a jump drive--there will NOT be time to log into your account and then project)

__Friday, November 20__ No School (auction set-up)

__Thursday, November 19__ Chapter 3 Assessment

__Wednesday, November 18 (late start)__ answer questions on section 3.6 and homework Q & A on any questions from the chapter

__Tuesday, November 17__ reviewed 3.5 Prop of Parallel lines Intro to 3.6: Proving Lines Parallel Assigned: 3.5 worksheet, and sectin 3.6 bookwork pg 144 #1-15

__Monday, November 16__ Warm up problems: Transitivity of Parallel Lines, Property of Perpendicular lines, Algebraic Property p105-106 Solve a system of equations, give conclusions for the given statements using the Laws of Syllogism & Detachment

Intro 3.5: Properties of Parallel Lines Homework pg: 137-8 #1-21

__Thursday, November 12__ Connections to Algebra: solving systems of equations Challenge problem: math test 1A, solved by Lauren (per 1) Assigned: p116 #33-40, page 123 #1-25 Enrichment: Line Designs--see page 118-119; where do you find this in the world around you? Due Thurs Nov 19th

__Japanese IQ test (Thanks Mr. Peters and Mr. Moberg)__ click on this link, scroll down for directions (in English), then choose the blue button to play [|Japanese IQ test]

__Wednesday, November 11__ Students work in pods on the following: Drawing conclusions worksheet, solving the Cabbage, Goat and Wolf program interactively (see link below), GSP sketch to present the week of November 23rd

[|Cabbage, goat and wolf problem]

__Tuesday, November 10__ Stations A: math team test (pre-algebra topics) B: correct 3.1 homework, 3.2 handout C: Goat, Wolf and Cabbage problem/ Drawing conclusions Wksheet; hands on puzzles Assignment: 3.2 handout

__Monday, November 9__ How do coplanar lines relate? In pairs find all possible solutions for 2-10 lines Notes 3.1-3.3 due at the beginning of class Tuesday--to be turned in

__Thursday, Novemeber 4__ Chapter 3 Exploration 3.1 page 108-109 #128

__Wednesday, November 3__ 2.3-2.6 Assessment

__Tuesday, November 2__ 2.3-2.6 review

__Monday, November 1__ Checked in page 97 and "So what's the BIG IDEA?" Reminder: error reports due Wed Heads up: 2.3-2.6 Assessment on Wednesday

__Friday, October 30__ Black and Orange Day! Properties Review Game and Partner Multiple Choice Review Logic Puzzle for Enrichment due

__Thursday, October 29__ Solved Proof Puzzles in class went over construction quizzes "So What's the BIG IDEA anyway?" Students are to organize and take notes over sections 2.3-2.6

__Wednesday, October 28__ Went over 2.1-2.2, 1.5-1.6 quiz Explained process for completing an Error Report (see attached)

__Tuesday, October 27__ Discussed vocabulary and Theorems of 2.6 Went over p 92 Comm in Goeometry proof Assigned p 97-8 #3-24 pg 95 Logic Puzzle--enrichment (due Friday)

__Monday, October 26__ 2.6: Deductive Reasoning- read and take notes p92 Communicating about Geometry p93-95 #1-34, omit #22, 24

__Friday, October 23__ GSP sketches: continue work on optical illusion, daisy design or clock for class presentation period 1: meet in the library period 4: meet in lab 109 Reminder: page 83 due Monday

__Thursday, October 22__ Warm-Up: class problem, which is the way to Truth Town? (pg 83 #36) 2.5 Reasoning with Properties from Algebra pg 87 #1-10, 13-18, 27-29

__Wednesday, October 21__ 2.4 Conditional Statements Class created parts of conditional statements: hypothesis and conclusion and then put them together Communicating about Geometry pg 80 : Match A-F with postulates 5-10 Terminology: conditional statement, converse, hypothesis, conclusion, counter example Assigned pg 81-83 #9-24, #35-36 (Which road leads to Truthtown?) pg 83 #1-20 (due Monday)

__Tuesday, October 20__ Discussed homework from 2.3 What does it mean to verify? After solving, mathematicians should make a conclusion about their findings. don't forget to VERIFY! pg 76 #39-42

__Monday, October 19th__ Segment and Angle Relationships intro definitions and distance formula p 74 #1-6, 15-35

__Friday, October 16th__ No school

__Thursday, October 15th__ 1.5-1.6, 2.1-2.2 assessment Coordinate geometry, area and perimeter, pts, segments, rays and lines and segment and angle addition postulate

__Wednesday, October 14th__ Construction Quiz (1.7)

__Tuesday, October 13th__ Q and A on homework and review assignment

__Monday, October 12th__ 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.1, 2.2 review Homework check in What makes a square a square? Draw vs Construct

__Friday, October 9th__ Class demos: constructing 135 and 60 degree angles; constructing parallel and perpendicular lines in GSP p 46 Optical Illusion sketch by hand due compare sketches from page 48 #19-26 Draw vs. Construct--does it pass the drag test? Instructor began giving hints, students are to think about the difference over the weekend to prepare for next weeks sketches.

__Thursday, October 8th__ Lab 109: Geometer's Sketchpad

__Wednesday, October 7th__ Went over problems on pg 40 #21-26 and page 67-8 #11-22 Class tips for page 69 #37-42, algebra connection! Reminder: optical illusion cube due at the end of the week

__Tuesday October 6__ Lab 109: GSP Optical illusion cubes

__Monday October 5__ Check in constructions: 45 degree angle, and 2m<ABC Classwork: How do we find 6 pts on a circle that are equally spaced on the circle? Assign 1.7 cube construction and #19-26 Collected Tangram enrichment* Challenge: construct a 135 degree angle and a 60 degree angle (compass and straightedge only!) REMINDER: YOU NEED TO GET A COMPASS!!! (AND BRING IT TO CLASS)

__Friday October 2__ copied acute and obtuse angles
 * Constructions: bisected acute, obtuse and straight angles
 * Discussed Intersections of: 2 lines, 2 planes, a line and a plan

__Thursday October 1__ 9th grade students: Synagogue field trip 10th grade students: PLAN test

__Wednesday September 30th__ Constructions: copying segments, c+d and c-d; bisecting segments

__Tuesday September 29th__ Discussed 1.6 homework #3-6, 15-20 (radical review may be required--wksheets available) students recreated figures using cut-outs (p39)

__Monday September 28th__ (researched definition and drew pictures that represented adjacent angles and pictures that did not represent adjacent angles)
 * Checked in Adjacent angles work
 * Discussed the Dog Pen problem #2-- Create as many pens possible with an area of 24 square yards (using integers and rectangles)
 * Class definition of adjacent angles, used CPS to check in