Teachers' Labs
This site from the Annenberg Channel provides teachers with a deeper understanding of geometry concepts. This lab divides activities into two broad categories. Activities about shape center on identifying properties of various shapes and measuring their dimensions (symmetry, coordinates, and proportion) . Activities about space focus on moving objects—or yourself—around in your imagination, and visualizing how things will look.
Are you ready for some time travel? You've been selected to join us on an adventure through the ages, back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Along the way, you'll research the life and mathematical discoveries of Pythagoras. You'll also explore many three-dimensional solids known to the ancient Greeks and construct one of your own. Our time machine will be leaving soon, so pack your geometry tool kit and prepare to meet a geometry giant!
Greek Challenge 1:
First, write a short report on Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem. Greek Challenge 2:
Second, investigate and write a report on the platonic solids known to the Greeks. Greek Challenge 3:
Third, create a presentation that includes both of your reports and a three-dimensional model of at least one platonic solid. Math Content:real-life applications of geometry, Pythagorean Theorem, three-dimensional solids, symmetry Technology Skills: research, Web page, PowerPoint® presentation, newspaper/magazine article, poster, or video. Interdisciplinary: Language arts (writing a report), History (ancient Greece) JavaGami is a free downloadable software environment for designing and building paper sculpture. Choose for a number of starting polyhedra, which appear in a 3D window alongside a corresponding "folding net" in a 2D window. Employ both built-in features and the embedded programming language to customize the polyhedron, stretching or shrinking the polyhedron along its axes, truncating it at vertices, or adding pyramidal caps to faces. After the user customizes the new shape, the software attempts to generate a folding net for it, and offers a variety of paint tools to decorate the folding net.
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ACOS Objective 8
Recognize geometric relationships among two=dimensional and three-dimensional objects.
ARMT Possible Points = 6 (MC, OE)
Sample problems from Item Specs
Teachers' Labs
This site from the Annenberg Channel provides teachers with a deeper understanding of geometry concepts. This lab divides activities into two broad categories. Activities about shape center on identifying properties of various shapes and measuring their dimensions (symmetry, coordinates, and proportion) . Activities about space focus on moving objects—or yourself—around in your imagination, and visualizing how things will look.
Webquest: It's All Greek to Me
Are you ready for some time travel? You've been selected to join us on an adventure through the ages, back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Along the way, you'll research the life and mathematical discoveries of Pythagoras. You'll also explore many three-dimensional solids known to the ancient Greeks and construct one of your own. Our time machine will be leaving soon, so pack your geometry tool kit and prepare to meet a geometry giant!
Greek Challenge 1:
First, write a short report on Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem.
Greek Challenge 2:
Second, investigate and write a report on the platonic solids known to the Greeks.
Greek Challenge 3:
Third, create a presentation that includes both of your reports and a three-dimensional model of at least one platonic solid.
Math Content:real-life applications of geometry, Pythagorean Theorem, three-dimensional solids, symmetry
Technology Skills: research, Web page, PowerPoint® presentation, newspaper/magazine article, poster, or video.
Interdisciplinary: Language arts (writing a report), History (ancient Greece)
JavaGami is a free downloadable software environment for designing and building paper sculpture. Choose for a number of starting polyhedra, which appear in a 3D window alongside a corresponding "folding net" in a 2D window. Employ both built-in features and the embedded programming language to customize the polyhedron, stretching or shrinking the polyhedron along its axes, truncating it at vertices, or adding pyramidal caps to faces. After the user customizes the new shape, the software attempts to generate a folding net for it, and offers a variety of paint tools to decorate the folding net.
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Fractals - An Introduction
The History of Tangrams
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