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Monday, November 2, 2009
Discussion: Very Special Triangles
Angle Observations
Homework: More About Angles & ALEKS
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· Students are introduced to the right triangle and some of its unique properties.
· Students will build the Pythagorean Theorem.
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Tues/Weds, November 3 or 4, 2009
Discussion: More About Angles
Presentations: POW 14: Pool Pockets
Homework: Inside Similarity & ALEKS
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· Presenting the POW
· Students use supplementary angles to prove that vertical angles are equal.
· Students investigate angles formed by a transversal and parallel lines.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Discussion: Inside Similarity
A Parallel Proof
Homework: Angles, Angles, Angles & ALEKS
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· Students will develop a proof for the angle sum property for triangles using what they learned yesterday about parallel lines split by a transversal.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Discussion: Angles, Angles, Angles
The Lamp Shadow
Bouncing Light
Homework: Now You See It, Now You Don’t & ALEKS
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· Students investigate the reflections of light bouncing off of a mirror.
· Students will form a conjecture about the congruency of the angle of approach and the angle of departure.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Mirror Magic
Discussion: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Homework: Mirror Madness & ALEKS
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· Students will use mirrors and similar triangles to measure distances indirectly.
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Tues/Weds, November 10 or 11, 2009
Discussion: Mirror Madness
A Shadow of a Doubt
Homework: To Measure a Tree & ALEKS
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· Students investigate the unit problem “shadows”
· Students will use similar triangles to find an equation involving the variables from the unit problem.
· Students develop an algorithm for solving this equation in specific cases.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
Discussion: To Measure a Tree
Homework: TBA & ALEKS
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Friday, November 13, 2009
Catch up day
Homework: Takehome test
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· Students use similar triangles and shadows to measure the height of a tree.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
More Triangles for Shadows
Right Triangle Ratios
Homework: The Sun Shadow Problem & ALEKS
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Tues/Weds, November 17 or 18, 2009
Discussion: Right Triangle Ratios
Sin, Cos, and Tan Revealed
Homemade Trig Tables
Homework: Your Opposite Is My Adjacent & ALEKS
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· Students use sin, cos, tan to find missing parts of a triangle
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Discussion: Your Opposite Is My Adjacent
Homemade Trig Tables (continued)
The Tree and the Pendulum
Homework: Sparky and the Dude & ALEKS
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· Students explore the relationships between sin, cos, tan and find missing parts of a triangle
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Discussion: Sparky and the Dude
A Bright, Sunny Day
Homework: Beginning Portfolio Selection & ALEKS
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Monday, November 23, 2009
In-Class Assessment
Homework: Take-Home Assessment
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Similarity
Congruence
Right triangles
Special right triangles
Basic Trig ratios
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Tues/Weds, November 24 or 25, 2009
Assessment Discussion
Unit Reflection
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