Conference Prep, Unit Test, and more Paper Pool Unit Project

LARGE & SMALL GROUPS
Today we went over the Looking Back, Looking Ahead homework, to make sure we were clear on the answers. Small groups worked with MaryBeth, large groups with Sima. Then we went over the new homework (below), and we took the unit test.

LARGE & SMALL GROUP HOMEWORK
New homework to prepare for the Parent-Student-Teacher conferences on March 11 and 12 was given out. This asks you to look at strengths and challenges in math, since the last conference, focusing on the last 2 units: Stretching & Shrinking and Comparing & Scaling. Please fill out the handout with strengths and challenges with things, ideas/concepts, and skills as specifically as possible. Below are some examples.

Things: homework, quizzes, projects; be specific: which ones?

Ideas/concepts: setting up a proportion, making a comparison statement, that similar figures have equal angles and corresponding sides related by a scale factor

Skills: solving a proportion with scale factors or cross multiplication, solving for a missing side length, graphing a figure using coordinate information, writing equations

You may download a copy of the handout here.

Due tomorrow, Tuesday, March 2.

LARGE GROUP
We also discussed the Unit Project, Paper Pool, which is due this Thursday, March 4. I showed examples of tables and graphs for the project. We discussed that these should be graphed with one dimension (height or width) constant and this indicated in the title of the graph, the other dimension on the x axis, and the number of hits on the y axis. An example graph in PowerPoint may be downloaded here, and class notes may be downloaded here.