What's Going On? December 2nd through December 6th

Unit 6: Polygons and Quadrilaterals

This week, we will continue our study of polygons and quadrilaterals.  We will spend Monday's class focused on proving parallelograms.  For the rest of the week, we will focus in on different types of quadrilaterals, including rhombuses, rectangles, squares, kites, and trapezoids.  We will spend our final day of the week on applying our proofs with the coordinate plane. 

What's Going On? November 25th and November 26th

Happy Thanksgiving!


Due to the Thanksgiving Holiday, we will have classes on Monday and Tuesday with a break
Wednessday through Friday.  Monday will be a "Monday-style" schedule with AE and Tuesday will be a "purple-style" schedule without AE.








Unit 6: Polygons and Quadrilaterals

This week, we will introduce our sixth unit of the year.  We will spend Monday's class learning about some general characteristics of polygons such as the sum of the interior and exterior angles.  We will spend Tuesday's class discussing the characteristics of parallelograms. 

What's Going On? November 18th through November 22nd

Unit 5: Triangle Relationships

This week, students will continue our study of "Points of Concurrency".  So far, we have taken a look at the incenter, where the three angle bisectors of a triangle meet, and circumcenter, where the three perpendicular bisectors of a triangle meet.

This week, we will focus on the centroid, where three medians meet, and the orthocenter, where three altitudes of a triangle meet.

We will then spend Wednesday's class reviewing and complete our unit 5 summative during class on Thursday.  Our test will be made of up three major components:

• Solving for missing measurements 
• Constructing points of concurrency
• Writing equations and determining the location of a point of concurrency.

What's Going On? November 11th through November 15th

Unit 4: Triangles

This week, we will wrap up our fourth unit on triangles.  Students will spend Monday's class getting last minute questions answered and participate in a review activity.  During class on Tuesday, students will complete their unit 4 summative.  All formative work for the unit must be turned in by the start of class on Tuesday in order to be eligible for a summative retake.  Students will have two major parts of the summative:

1. Working with measures in triangles, including isosceles triangles
2. Proving triangles congruent

During class on Wednesday, we begin our fifth unit where we will spend more time discovering relationships that exist within triangles.  Students will spend some time learning to construct angle bisectors and perpendicular bisectors within a triangle.  By doing this, students will "discover" points of concurrency.