Come for:
- Surface area of basic solids.
Stay for:
- Day one of Phobia Week!
- Unattributed Flickr photos. (*ulp*)
Category: lessons
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Come for:
- The probability of shapes.
Stay for:
- Problems that frustrated the students and, consequently, their teacher.
- An abysmal three problems completed in two hours.
- A lesson I should’ve skipped.
[N.B. These are taking for-ev-er to crank out, for whatever reason, so I’m changing the format a bit. If anybody misses the minute by minute breakdown, I’ll bring it back. I’m guessing it was only there for formality’s sake, though.]
Come for:
- The area of circles and all their chopped-up, little parts.
Stay for:
- Famous Idiots in History
- The Stop Sign Project
We’re evaluating expressions. Plug x = 7 into 5x – 3 and see what comes out the other end, that sort of thing. Instruction has the tendency here to get really rote really fast. Needless to say, worksheets abound for this unit.
So instead we spent some time in the Half Plus Seven function, for which no Wikipedia entry exists, and which therefore deserves a quick explanation:
Why We’re Here:
- We’re going to investigate Pick’s Theorem (and then forget about it).
- We’re going to review new area formulas with a treasure hunt.