Friday, September 27

Learning Targets:

1. Students will complete the math diagnostic in i-Ready.

2. Students will describe and perform geometric transformations on the coordinate grid.

• silent reading
• i-Ready diagnostic
• Independent work time
  • on-line assignment mangahigh.com - Transtar
  • problem solving - describing and performing transformations

Wednesday, September 25

Learning Target: Students will describe and perform geometric transformations on the coordinate grid.

• silent reading
• warm-up
• Homework/practice - Mangahigh.com see Hollis for username and password if you didn't already get one during class (it is not the same as last year). Assignments due next Wednesday, October 2.
• i-Ready diagnostic

Tuesday, September 24

Learning Target: Students will identify different geometric transformations on the coordinate grid.

• Silent reading
• Warm-up (describing transformations)
• iReady diagnostic on Wednesday and/or Friday
• Describing transformations on the coordinate plane

The Essentials: (provide the following in your instructions)

• Translation
  1. direction and distance that object will move
• Reflection
  1. line of reflection
• Rotation
  1. point of rotation
  2. angle of rotation
  3. direction of rotation
• Dilation (add to notes)
  1. point of dilation
  2. scale factor
• practice - transformations on the coordinate plane (extensions)

Friday, September 20

Learning Target: Students will identify different geometric transformations on the coordinate grid.

• Silent reading
• Warm-up (scale factor)
• Notes - Transformations (foldable)

• sorting (translation, reflection, rotation)
• Partner activity - transformations on the coordinate plane

Tuesday, September 17

Learning Target: Students will explore and compare geometric transformations and create a foldable to model the different ways an object can be transformed.

Learning Target:

• Silent reading
• Warm-up / review and collect HW
• Intro
• Notes - Transformations (foldable)

• Partner activity - transformations on the coordinate plane (given the right triangle on the floor, what transformation (s) would move it to the location of the congruent black triangle in quadrant 1?)

Friday, September 13

Learning Target: Students will write and solve proportions using multiple strategies.

• Silent reading
• warm-up (proportions)
• Writing and solving proportions
  1. scale factor
  2. cross multiplication
• Independent /collaborative work time
• iReady - screener

Clever

Wednesday, September 11

Learning Target: Students will define mathematical similarity & congruence and apply these concepts to solve mathematical problems.

• mindfulness (Jade & Katie)
• SSR
• revisit similarity and congruence (warm-up) - Turn & talk
  • corresponding parts
  • geometric notation
• Notes
• problem solving - proportions

Tuesday, September 10

Learning Targets:

1. Students will solve simple proportions.

2. Students will develop an understanding of the relationship between mathematical similarity and congruence.

• Silent reading
• warm-up (proportions)
• ratios and proportions
• Activity (partners - characteristics of similar and congruent shapes)
  • mathematical similarity
  • congruence

Friday, September 6

Learning Target: Students will complete the fall diagnostic in Star 360.

• Silent reading
• Polygons & quadrilaterals notes
• Star 360 - fall diagnostic

Tuesday, September 3

Learning Target: Students will identify and sort and define polygons by comparing their different features.

• Silent reading
• Warm-up (identifying quadrilaterals) / homework
• Venn diagrams
• Shape sorting activity
• Notes - polygons and quadrilaterals

Friday, August 30

Learning Target: Students will revisit angles and angle measure and begin a discussion of polygons.

• Silent reading
• Nuts & Bolts
  • year at a glance
  • notebooks & participation cards
  • expectations
• Warm-up (angles)
• Polygons intro (partner activity)
• Homework (Notebook Hunt due Tuesday 9/3)