What's Going On? February 8-12th

Finishing Up Our Similarity Unit

This week we will wrap up our unit on similarity.  We have talked about relationships between similar figures and shortcuts to prove that triangles are similar.  We have also talked about relationships that exist within triangles (right triangle similarity and proportionality in triangles).  At the end of last week we talked about how similarity applies on the coordinate plane with dilations.  We will wrap up the unit by talking about fractals.  We will draw some figures, like the one pictured at the right called the Sierpinski triangle.  Fractals use self-similarity in order to create a larger figure that is similar to the original.

As we review for our summative, students will break up into groups and become our "class experts" on a problem from the review.  The groups will then create a short video using the app "Explain Everything" to explain the process.  All of these videos will be housed on our BlackBoard class website to aid the class in preparing for our unit summative.

If you have any questions, please ask!  Let's have a strong start to 2nd semester!