Radnor Middle School Mathematics Department
Friday, June 14, 2002

  Introductions

  A "Middle School" Introduction to the Math Forum

  Using Geometer's Sketchpad

• Tour 1: Constructing a Square - download the Word document
• Challenges: a rectangle, a parallelogram, a rhombus, a trapezoid, and an equilateral triangle
• Discussion
• Using the "Constructing an Equilateral Triangle" challenge:
  
  • custom tool
  • script view
  • use the custom tool feature to tessellate the triangle
  • Standards/Benchmarks Alignment and Math Forum Resources

  Geometer's Sketchpad Activities

For each activity below, we've provided a link to a page that contains Standards/Benchmarks Alignment and Math Forum Resources

• Adding Integers - Exploring Algebra, page 3
      Support Materials
• Exploring the Properties of the Four Arithmetic Operations - Exploring Algebra, page 16
      Support Materials
• Points "Lining Up" in the Plane - Exploring Algebra, page 37
      Support Materials
• Similar Figures - adapted from Geometry Activities for Middle School Students, page 155
      Support Materials
• Exploring Quadrilaterals - adapted from Geometry Activities for Middle School Students, page 89
      Support Materials
• Graphing a Function - adapted from Math Thematics, Book 2, page 123
      Support Materials

  Planning Time
        Use a variety of resources to plan technology-based lessons including:

• Geometer's Sketchpad publications
• Review some of the Support Materials linked above
• Other Activities to Explore
  Tessellations Using Only Translations - Exploring Geometry, page 56
  Tessellations That Use Rotations - Exploring Geometry, page 58
  Introducing the Coordinate Plane - Exploring Algebra, page 18
  Translation in the Coordinate Plane - Exploring Algebra, page 125
  Parabolas in Standard Form - Exploring Algebra, page 84
  
• Project Interactivate - aligned to MathThematics resources
• MathThematics site

Shelly Berman, Annie Fetter & Suzanne Alejandre
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