SMTE 3352 Calendar
Spring 2012

DAY   
LESSON
HOMEWORK
12 Jan

1: Introduction to geometry
Introduction
BOOKS: Zoom & ReZoom
Attention video
Syllabus quiz
ACTIVITY: Geometry & Measurement TEKS

HW: Watch the van Hiele video
with worksheet due 17 Jan

17 Jan

2: van Hiele model
Quickdraw
van Hiele model
Geometry, foundations & dimensions
ACTIVITY: Trianquads

HW: Watch the Curves & Polygons video
with worksheet due 19 Jan

19 Jan

3: Geometric curves
Quickdraw
ACTIVITY: Curves sort

Making tangrams video
Tangram books & Lynette's video
BOOKS: Warlord's Puzzle & Grandfather Tang

HW: Watch the Triangles video with worksheet
due 24 Jan

* Bring your tangrams to class on 24 Jan

Help: Concave/convex polygons

20-21 Jan
REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR at ABC Center
24 Jan
4: Triangles
QUIZ #1 (curves)
Quickdraw
Marking congruent shapes
ACTIVITY: Triangles

HW: Watch the Quadrilaterals video with worksheet due 26 Jan

Only for fun: Triangle party, Triangle song
App: Puzzle Grid Triangles


26 Jan

5: Quadrilaterals
Geoboards & dot paper
ACTIVITY: Quad properties chart

HW: Quadrilaterals worksheet due 31 Jan

For fun: Quad rap
31 Jan

6: Polygons
ACTIVITY: True or False

HW: Watch the Angles & diagonals video
with worksheet due 2 Feb
Turn in the True or False worksheet on 2 Feb


2 Feb

7: Angles
ACTIVITY: Angles
& diagonals

HW: Watch Polyhedra video with worksheet
due 7 Feb
Turn in Angles & diagonals worksheet
14 Feb

7 Feb
8: Polyhedra
QUIZ #2 (polygons)
ACTIVITY: Folding circles
HW: Watch Prisms & pyramids and Cylinders, cones & spheres videos with
worksheet due 14 Feb
9 Feb

No class -- compensation for SF

14 Feb

9: Prisms, pyramids, cones, cylinders & spheres
ACTIVITY: Envelope tetrahedron

HW: Read Inches & Feet
WATCH: Measurement video
For fun: Mobius hearts and Tetrahedron kites


16 Feb

10: Length & perimeter
ACTIVITY: 3-D shape sort
ACTIVITY: Measurement
Using a ruler to measure length

Finding perimeter

HW: Length and Perimeter worksheets due 21 Feb
21 Feb

11: Circumference
History of pi
Finding circumference
ACTIVITY: Earth POW

HW: Circumference worksheet due 28 Feb

23 Feb

No class -- compensation for FMN

Monday
27 Feb

FAMILY MATH NIGHT at Evans Elementary 5:00-6:00 PM
28 Feb
12: Area
ACTIVITY: Triangles to trapezoids

HW: Triangles to trapezoids email journal
due 1 Mar
1 Mar

13: Area 2
ACTIVITY:Area on the geoboard
QUIZ #3
(polyhedra)

 

6 Mar
14: Area 3
Base times height for all
HW: Area worksheet due 8 Mar
8 Mar

15: Surface area
Surface area
Drawing perspectives
ACTIVITY: Building perspectives

HW: Surface area worksheet due 20 Mar
12-16 Mar

Spring Break

20 Mar

16: Volume
Choose final presentations
ACTIVITY: Soma cubes
ACTIVITY: Space POW

HW: Email Space POW journal due 22 Mar
22 Mar

17: Volume
QUIZ #4 (Perimeter, circumference, area, surface area)

HW: Work on class presentations
27 Mar

18: Volume
Volume

HW: Volume worksheet due due 29 Mar
29 Mar
19: Similarity
Similarity
Re-take Quiz #4
HW: Work on class presentations
3 Apr
20: Symmetry
Symmetry & lines of symmetry
Congruent halves

HW: Symmetry worksheet due 5 Apr

5 Apr

21: Transformations
Reflection

QUIZ #5 (volume)

HW: Symmetry 2 worksheet due 10 Apr (draw line of symmetry between the pre- and post-image)
10 Apr
22: Transformations
Translations, tessellations & tilings
Transformation Golf
Rotations & point symmetry
HW: Work on class presentations
12 Apr

23: Fractals
Fractals
Fractal sculptures presentation
Koch snowflake presentation

17 Apr

24: Graph theory
Graph theory
Konigsberg bridge presentation
Multicultural graphs presentation

19 Apr
FINAL EXAM     final exam review
24 Apr

25: Non-Euclidean geometries
Non-Euclidean geometries
Taxicab geometry presentation
Hyperbolic tessellations presentation

26 Apr

26: Final presentations
Curve stitching presentation
Flexagons presentation
Kaleidocycles presentation

1 May

27: Final presentations
Pick's theorem presentation
Four-color theorem presentation
Packing spheres presentation

8 May
28: Final presentations
1:45 - 4:15 PM
Quilts presentation
Impossible pictures presentation