1, 2, 3…Fore!

1, 2, 3…Fore!

As our final math project for the year, we tied together many of the topics that we learned about to build our own mini-golf course! Students took what the knowledge they had gained about perimeter, area, angles, mean, median, and mode and used this in the planning,...
Circumference

Circumference

We’ve been talking geometry in class recently. We’ve discussed polygons (Mrs. Yollis class has a great post about them), angles, and now circles. We began by reviewing all the different parts of a circle. In the picture above, you’ll see a green line...
Playing with Proportions

Playing with Proportions

We’ve done many projects over the course of the past two years. One of the favorites of the students though was the Angry Birds posters we created last year. While learning about angles, students were asked to create their own Angry Birds level. They then had to...
Running in Circles

Running in Circles

Today we discussed all things circles. We talked about the radius, diameter, circumference, and angles. Thanks to technology, we had a whole new way of learning about it! A couple weeks ago, one of our blogging buddies, Mrs. Hembree wrote a post highlighting the...
Angry Bird Angles

Angry Bird Angles

Read the Full Post Below  Angry Bird Angles Last week, we spent a lot of time talking about angles. We began by reviewing acute, right, and obtuse angles. We remembered that a right angle is 90° and that you can make a square inside of it. We discussed that an...