Geometry Assignment #8
We are working on area problems, which will be important for future projects.  Also, we're working on communicating math problem-solving processes clearly.  This is a somewhat longer assignment than usual and will be scored on clarity of your problem-solving process (make sure you write equations for each problem that explain the way you solve it) and on accuracy, like a test.
p. 456 #18-25, 29-31, 37, 38,41, 42, 44-47.
Bonus: #26-28;
Another Bonus: prove the area formulas for trapezoids and/or parallelograms.
The whole assignment is due Thursday, March 12.
To help you work away steadily at it, and to be signed off for Friday fun, you should have at least 6 problems done by Friday February 27, and 12 problems done by Friday March 6.

Geometry Party (Test) on this Thursday, February 19.
See the handout or contact me for more details.
-Brook

Biology

Our High School out and about activity this week was a service
project to Ash Street Field. We put protective sleeves on some new
Oregon Native White Oaks. The student teams garnered high praise
from the Volunteer Coordinator, Bonnie, who said they did even better
work than her paid contractors! We hope to return to the site later
this spring to check the health of our "adopted" trees.
-Rochelle

Geometry Assignment #6...Due Tuesday February 17.
p. 349 #5-7, 9, 11-13, 15, 17-19, 28, 29, 32.
[bonus: p. 317 #17, 18]

Geometry Assignment. Due February 10, 2009. Four word problems about the Pythagorean Theorem, and 3 problems for practicing the distance formula.
p. 482 #1,4,5,8 (first part of 8) [bonus: #9,10, 2nd part of 8]
p. 489 #1-3

Remember, if you have questions about a problem, feel free to email me at b.waldman@fgcschool.org.

Geometry Assignments:  Students, families, and staff have multiple places to be able to find this information.  Current Geometry assignments are written on the board in the Geometry classroom, and there is a chart that hangs next to the board with all previous Geometry assignments.  Students are asked to write assignments in their planners at the time they are given.  And there is a master assignment calendar for all classes hanging in the north classroom.  And finally, now there is the virtual assignment chart—available here on this blog.

These will generally be posted as they are assigned.  As this is the first posting of this sort, I will also include past assignments from this semester.

Assignment #1. Due Jan 27.  p. 257 #3,4,6,7,13,14,16 p.262 #4,5,6

Assignment #2. Due Feb 3.  p. 297 #5-8, [#9,10 bonus]

Assignment #3. Due Feb 5.  p. 465 #1-6, 9-11, 13, 14, 16 [#17 bonus]. Students will have time to work on #13, 14, 16, and 17 in class on Feb 5.

Assignment #4. Due Feb 5. Furnishing the Octagon House. (Students were given a verbal description of the assignment, and there is a handout available if they would like it.)

This month in Geometry: Class has been a potpourri of hands-on projects (the cardboard student mailbox set that went up last week, and we've begun work on designing wooden planters for the space outside the building); conventional problem-solving assignments (mostly focusing on angle measurements of various polygons, and this week a look at the Pythagorean Theorem); Geometric proofs (an important skill of detailing how it is we know what we know in math); Geometric constructions using the classical tools of this endeavor, the compass and straight edge; and group games and exercises that help to demonstrate concepts we've been looking at (these have included 'the best game ever', 'Geometry-Pictionary-Telephone-Extravaganza', and creating parallelograms, rectangles, and other Geometric entities with string, cardboard points, and whatever else students can get their hands on.)  In the upcoming weeks we'll be taking a closer look at circles, and then at the concept of area. 

-Brook

Feb 4, 2009. The new semester brings new use of the FGCS High School blog for Geometry class.  We'll provide monthly updates of what is going on in class, including topics and projects.  And assignments will be posted here as well, so students and parents should be able to access details about current and past assignments anytime. As this is a developing tool, please let me know if you have any requests or suggestions of how to make this blog more helpful.  Thanks.

-Brook