Wednesday, March 23, 2016

PG PLT Meeting 3/23/16

The PLT specialist updated us on the progress of students. Data was used to assign more students for standard 7.3.

Timelines for unit 8 were shared. Websites and activities were shared as well.

March 15th               (Area of irregular shapes)         Area of irregular shape from vertices   http://www.analyzemath.com/Geometry_calculators/irregular_polygon_area.html


March 18th               (Area of a triangle)                   Examples of finding area of a triangle http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/TriangleExplorer/

April 21st                  (Area of a parallelogram)          Illustration of base/height on par. needed for area http://www.mathopenref.com/parallelogramarea.html
                                (Area of a kite)                         How kite formula relates to rect. Formula http://tube.geogebra.org/student/m14644
April 27th                  (Area of a trapezoid)                 Determine the size of the trapezoid behind the (hockey) net http://i.imgur.com/mcGboji.png
April 29th                  (Area of a circle)                       Visual proof of circumference and area formulas http://tube.geogebra.org/student/m279
                                                                                Validating area of a circle http://www.mathopenref.com/circlearea.html
May 1st                     (Area of a sector)                      Exploring a sector http://www.mathopenref.com/arcsector.html
May 8th                     (Area from subtracting)            Example of square with four circles inside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBUOvl0DpWE
                                (Areas of different shapes)        Stained glass window examples
                                                 https://www.google.com/search?q=stained+glass+windows&rlz=1C1GPCK_enUS439US439&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=949&tbm=isch&imgil=PE4FOhYWkIa-5M%253A%253BfKevfEkbwulZKM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fen.wikipedia.org%25252Fwiki%25252FStained_glass&source=iu&pf=m&fir=PE4FOhYWkIa-5M%253A%252CfKevfEkbwulZKM%252C_&usg=__o5dp3fPbx1LCrKE1Jwoyt9B8Wu8%3D&ved=0CCsQyjc&ei=wrNMVa_OGsOzyAT-qYG4Bg#tbm=isch&tbs=rimg%3ACba-cK-VkjYeIjh42Un6tryRf8rN-heKWV-Un_1Hlwya4AH1R0K4qcfhhPhAlA_1wlsnSobqu_10LByrCL151YrospuxioSCXjZSfq2vJF_1EXWtwfH2FUD_1KhIJys36F4pZX5QRdWE98fWA99cqEgmf8eXDJrgAfREMwgFxzOtOAioSCVHQripx-GE-EUg4w9fH267DKhIJECUD_1CWydKgRC0eGVqx8yi8qEgluq7_1QsHKsIhGpjUzbhuO0JyoSCfXnViuiym7GEZsJMZo35kch&q=stained%20glass%20windows&imgdii=tr5wr5WSNh5knM%3A%3Btr5wr5WSNh5knM%3A%3Bbqu_0LByrCLMKM%3A
April 13th                  (Area of irregular shapes)         Any shape constructed by selecting corner points  http://www.sketchandcalc.com/
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