Handout: Summer Math Syllabus (pdf format) (Word doc)

This was handed out prior to the two weeks of "math intensives". It has general information, grading standards, and a brief description of the syllabus.

Assignment 1 (Geometry) Due Monday 8/5 at the beginning of class (pdf format) (Word doc)

This assignment is mostly about visual understanding of area of triangles and special quadrilaterals. There are a couple of challenge problems as well.


Monday 8/5

Kite Activity from NWMI Notebook (pdf format)

This handout is contains student worksheets and some mathematical analysis which is very close to the straw tetrahedron activity of Monday morning. However the TLP activity was based on verbal instructions and did not follow a worksheet.

CMP Evaluation Questions - Two parts

Assignment 2 (Geometry) Due Tuesday 8/6 at the beginning of class (html format) (pdf format)

This assignment refers to the Questions to answer for homework, above.

Feedback Form for Assignment 1(html format) (pdf format)

These questions were supplemented by two questions about Monday morning.

Notes Describing Similarity Activities Based on CMP (html format)

These notes were not distributed as handouts. They are brief descriptions of what was done during the activities.


Tuesday 8/6

Assignment 3 (Geometry) Due Wednesday 8/6 at the beginning of class (html format) (pdf format)

This assignment is about similar rectangles.

Page of Pentagons (html format)

A page of regular pentagons with inscribed pentagrams was handed out for marking on during the process of finding the ratios in a pentagon.


Wednesday 8/7

Assignment 4 (Geometry) Due Wednesday 8/6 at the beginning of class (html format)

This assignment has 4 problems. The first 3 build up information about regular tetrahedra. The fourth is about half a cone of ice cream.


Thursday 8/8

Assignment 5 (Geometry) Due Friday 8/9 at the beginning of class (html format)

This assignment has two problems about scaling and similarity.


Friday 8/9

Pythagorean jigsaw puzzles

Page of square tessellations

Copied from Dale Seymour's Tessellation Teaching Masters

Handout on origami cubes