Cycle 1, 2007
By Date Assignments
September 5, 2007
Log into Computer Math.
Create a folder called sketchpad. Save all your sketchpad documents in this folder.
Open Sketchpad.
Use the tools.
September 6, 2007
September 7, 2007
September 10, 2007
September 11, 2007
Sum of the angles of a triangle.
Warm up: Draw a square. Define a square.
Draw a triangle. Find the measure of each angle of the triangle.
Get Measured Triangle Maker from the group share folder. Use the hand-out to answer questions.
Save document as Sept11.gsp
September 12, 2007
Sum of the angles of a polygon.
Warm up: Draw a triangle. Draw a quadrilateral. Draw a pentagon. Label them.
Use Sketchpad and hand-out to complete the assignment.
Save docuement as SumofAngles.gsp
September 17, 2007
Warm Up: Draw a square.
Betweenness- See handout
September 18, 2007
Warm Up: Draw an equilateral Triangle.
Distance- See handout
September 19, 2007
Perpendicular Bisector - See handout
September 20, 2007
Tour 9: Incenter - Find definition of Incenter of a triangle.
Tour 10: Centroid - Find definition of Centroid of a triangle.

September 21, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Review and Design a Dragon:
1) Draw Triangle ABC. Find the Angle bisector of angle A. Write a defintion of bisector of an angle.
2) Draw Triangle DEF. Find the median from Point D to side EF. Write the defintion of median of a triangle.
Save document as review.gsp
Open a new sketchpad document.
3) Fractal Project: Draw the very cool design. You can get a copy from shared docuements to see the steps.
Save docuement as dragon.gsp


September 24, 2007
Define Circle
Introduction to Circles part 1 -
See handout
September 25, 2007
Define Circle
Define Diameter
Introduction to Circles part 2 -
See handout
September 26, 2007
Define Chord
Chords - See handout
September 27, 2007
Diameter/Circumference Ratio -
See handout
September 28, 2007
Investigation: Fixed Area of a Triangle
October 1, 2007
A Triangle Area Problem
October 2, 2007
Rectangle with Maximum Area
October 3, 2007
The Golden Rectangle
October 4, 2007
A Right Triangle With Squares

October 5, 2007
Pythagoream Puzzle
Get Pythagorean Puzzles.gsp from the Shared Docuement folder. Save it as PytPuzzle.gsp. Work the puzzles. Write an observation after each puzzle is solved.
After solving the puzzles, go to the internet and answer the following questions?

1) What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
2) Who discovered the theorem?

October 9, 2007
The Pythagorean Theorem
October 10, 2007
Square Within a Square
October 11, 2007
The Tiled Square Proof
October 12, 2007
Dissection
October 15, 2007
Wrong Way Square
October 16, 2007
Pythagorean Tree
October 17, 2007
Unsquare Pythagoras
October 18, 2007
Parabola
October 19, 2007
Who was Pythagoras?
October 22, 2007
Mathography
Basics -create a folder. set-up Test Edit preferences, Save text edit document as instructed on Internet site.
HTML - use basic code to put in a color back ground, a title and headings for each paragraph.
Content - write an Introduction and About you
October 23, 2007
Mathography
Content - Complete content
October 24, 2007
Mathography
Images - insert an image at the beginning of each paragraph. Have the image be related to the paragraph. Insert a tiled background.
October 25, 2007
Mathography
Complete Mathography. Hand it it.
October 29, 2007 - Edit your photo in photoshop
1) Open Photoshop
2) Get a picture or yourself from group share.
3) Edit it.
October 30, 2007
Get Halloween folder from group share.
Open photoshop.
Get a headshot and decorate with a costume.
October 31
Happy Halloween

Find your photos in the shared documents. Find an outfit in the halloween folder in shared documents. Drag the photos onto the desktop. Open Photoshop. Open all the photos. Create a costume.
OR
Open Illustrator. Create a new document that is 500x500 with a transparent background. Follow the instructions of the link as a you wish. You are to draw a pumpkin as instructed or of your own choosing.
Create a pumpkin
November 1, 2007
Geometric Collage
Create a folder called Collage.
In Shared Documents get the pictures find the pictures in the collage folder and drag them into your Collage folder.
We opened house, pencil and bricks and
followed the steps to have the sky be pencils and the grass be bricks.
November 2, 2007
We created a page in Dreamweaver and inserted our photo from Nov 1.

Geometric Collage.
In dreamweaver, create a 3x1 Table.
In row 1 type a title.
In row 2 insert the geometric picture.
In row 3 write how the picture is geometry shapes.

Steps.
1) View Actual Pixels.
2) Resize as needed
>Image
> Image Size
3) Select area
>Select
>All
>Edit
>Copy
4) Click on main photo
>Edit
>Paste
5) >Layer
>Layer Mask
- >Hide All
6) Select Brush tool and rub.
November 5, 2007

Geometric Collage
Using the knowledge from yesterday, create your collage. Get pictures of geometric shapes and create a collage. Be sure it is geometric shapes, not just photos.

Cycle 1, 2007 is over
hangman