Another snow day for Muncie Community School Corporation. This means that I can use this day as a way to catch up on student teaching things that I need to get done, which is essentially my portfolio work.
Things to look forward to: With this day off I can better prepare for a potential project I was going to have my Pre-Algebra Students work on in class. This was going to be creating their own shape using stipulations of other shapes (i.e. pair of perpendicular sides, all sides congruent, two pairs of sides congruent, all angles acute, all angles obtuse, etc.). Basically what I was going for is some creativity while using the boundaries that other shapes have to have. They would have to use, I'm thinking, two stipulations, that I will be giving, and create a shape with at most 10 sides, and they get to name it their own name.
Let me know what you think about this project idea. I know I may not have a whole lot of time for it, but I think it could be something I do in the future.
sounds like a good project to get them to start thinking about what those properties will physically look like and what happens to a shape that has these properties. Let me know how it goes if you decide to use that project
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