Entries from October 2007

October 31, 2007

4.1 Triangle Intoduction

What fun we had today! We started out Triangle Unit which will take us through the end of the semester. 4.1 Triangle introduction gave taught us how to classify triangles by angles (BM 21) and sides and the EXTREMELY important concept that all the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees (BM 19). [...]

October 29, 2007

No time for anything

Did you ever have one of those days where you didn’t have time for anything? October has been 31 days like that for me. Both school and work related workshops- both participating in and presenting, implementation of Moodle, and tons of benchmarks! And then there’s my family life from sick kids and even the death [...]

October 29, 2007

Back to Benchmarks!

Back to a normal schedule! I’m not planning on being out for a while! Today was our benchmark Monday again. We re-took BM 9-11 on Constructions, 13 on Parallel Line Converses, and the new ones: Proving Lines are Parallel (BM 14) and Reflections, Translations, and Rotations (BM 15-17).
The only homework is to have a Grade [...]

October 25, 2007

Review of Transformations

Depending on the class depends on what we did. Since I was out last week for Period 5, we quickly revisited Transformations (BM 15-17). For homework, another 2 assignments- #28 Chapter 3 Cumulative Review and #29 Transformations 2 WS.
For the even classes, I was away for a funeral so the in-class assignment is #28 and [...]

October 23, 2007

Benchmark Exam

The first part of the class was spent doing a quick review of our Review from Monday. We then went into the Benchmark Exam. This exam is to see where we are as a class and individually to and give some direction where we need to go before our final exam. Nothing else!
Posting for points [...]

October 22, 2007

Change of Plans

Emergency change of plans today. While I had originally planned for another Benchmark Monday, but a death in the family has caused me to push back our plans for the week. Our benchmarks have been moved to next Monday (10/29) and the test has been moved back a week, too.
In place of the benchmarks are [...]