Spring, 2002

Schedule of Projects and Exams

MAT 204

 

DAY:

Topics, Activities:

Exams AND  Projects:

UNIT ONE: 2D objects and relations among polygons in the plane.

TASKS 1 and 2

 

Day 1: 

January 15, Tuesday

 

 

Day 2: 

January 17, Thurs.

 

 

Day 3:

January 22, Tuesday

 

 

Day 4,

 January 24, Thurs.

 

Quiz One

Day 5:

 January 29

 

 

Day 6:

 January 31, Thursday

 

 

Day 7:

February 5: Tuesday

Review

 

Day 8:

 February 7: Thursday

Constructions,

Assign: C 6 and new tasks

EXAM One: 2D shapes, relations, foundations of geometry and geometric reasoning

 

UNIT TWO: Measurement and many geometries

 

 

Day 1 of unit 2:

February 12 (Tuesday)

 

 

 

Day 2 of unit 2:

2/14/02  (Thurs.)

 

 

 

Day 3 (Tuesday)

2/19/02

 

 

Day 4 (Thurs.)

2/21

 

PROJECT 1 Due:

Microworlds’ Project Builder

Explain Angles in Pattern Blocks. Use informal transformation arguments.

 

Day 5

2/26, Tuesday

 

 

Day 6

2/28    Thursday

 

 

 

Day 7

March 5, Tuesday

 

 

Day 8

March 7, Thursday

 

 

EXAM Two: Measurement and geometry

Spring Break,  March 9 - 17


 

UNIT Three: 3D shapes, symmetry, tessellations

 

 

Day 1, unit 3

March 19, Tuesday

 

 

 

Day 2, unit 3

3/21

 

 

Day 3, unit 3

3/26

 

 

 

Day 4,

3/28

 

 

 

Day 5,

4/02/02

Discuss 3D symmetry and regular polyhedra, and chapter 5 (assign 5.3)

 

Explain projects 2 and 3

Collect sections 5.1 and 5.2

Day 6

4/04/02

Review symmetry and tessellations and 3D shape descriptions.

Collect 5.3

Day 7

4/09/02

Shapemakers presentations, 2 groups

 

Day 8

April 11, Thur

Shapemakers presentations, 2 groups

 

 

Day 9

4/16/02

 

EXAM 3: On 3D and tessellations and classes of shapes

 


 

UNIT Four: Problem Solving in Geometry and Transformations, C 7 and 8 in O’Daffer

 

 

Day 1, unit 4

4/18/02

 

Project 2 Due. Reflective paper on Related classes of quadrilaterals and triangles (lesson in Shapemakers)

Day 2

April 23, Tuesday (NCTM)

Project and Review Day

 

 

Day 3

April 25, Thursday

 

Geometry on a sphere:  great circles, etc.  Elliptical Geometry

 

Project 3 Due:  GSP sketches and report on integrating geometry and technology to examine motion and physics…

 

 

 

 

 

Day 4

April 30, Tuesday

Reviewing geometry

 

Day 5

May 2, Thursday

Reviewing measurement

 

Final EXAM: Section 01

 

May 6, Monday, at 3:10 P. M.