Week of May 4-8, 2015

This past week we had a GT expo. We had a short amount of time to work on our projects, but we got it done. I am so proud of my homeroom class for coming through, and as always we got the job done.

We concentrated on polyhedrons which are 3D geometric shapes that are found throughout architecture structures all over the world. That just proves math really is all around us. My students enjoyed learning how to manipulate pieces of square paper and turn it into a beautiful shape with cycles of pyramids. We also created a structure using circles and a perfect equilateral triangle. An equilateral triangle has all sides the same length. Many of the students wanted to make some for decoration to display at home.

This coming week we have a busy schedule.
Monday: Bring a candy wrapper to class or a small piece of your favorite comic strip.
                Last day to turn in $25 for lock-in.
Tuesday&Wednesday: Continue with our project on dilation using scale factors
Thursday: Movie trip. Bring in $10 if you did not have perfect attendance.
Friday: Worksheets on scale factor/GT training

Below are a few pictures of my students working on their GT projects and also the finished product set up at the MPC.