What's Going On? October 28th through November 1st

Unit 4: Properties of Parallel Lines

This week we will be finishing up our study on the properties of parallel lines.  On Monday we will play with Play-Doh to experiment with "spherical geometry".  This is an extension topic from the Common Core Standards that we will take a look at.  We will talk about it, but it's not a topic of emphasis.

We will also be reviewing for our Unit 4 Summative Assessment.  We will check out the review assignment on BlackBoard and break up into pairs.  Each pair will be responsible for becoming an "expert" on one type of problem.  The "expert" group will create a video through "Explain Everything" on their iPads to talk through the problem.  The problem explanations will then be shared with the class.  The videos can then be viewed by other students who get stuck on a problem.

At the end of the week we will begin Unit 5, where we start talking about triangles.  We will review the triangle sum theorem.  We already know a lot about this already---the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees.  We will also talk about the triangle inequality theorem---we'll decide if we can always make a triangle with given side lengths.