Cycle 3, 2007 Assignments by Date
February 1, 2007
Sign into the roster. Log onto the computer. Open Sketchpad.
Create a folder called Sketchpad.
February 2, 2007
Sign into the roster if you didn't yesterday. Log onto the computer. Open Sketchpad.
In sketchpad,
draw point A,
segment BC,
Ray DE,
Line FG.
Draw a triangle and color it in.
Draw a quadrilateral and color it in.
Draw a circle and color it in.
Draw a square - a real square not some fake quadrilateral that "looks" like a square. Save the document into your Sketchpad folder. Call it assign1.gsp.
February 5, 2007
Laura is home with a bad cold. However, don't let that stop you from learning!
Open Sketchpad. Save the document as Feb4.gsp
Draw a triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon. Color them in. Draw more shapes. Color them in. Create a design. Save it. (10 points)

February 6, 2007
Draw a pair of parallel lines.
Draw a pair of perpendicular lines.
Draw a triangle inside a circle.
Draw a circle with a radius.
Draw a circle with a diameter.
Draw a Circle inside a triangle.
Save the document into your Sketchpad folder.
Call it feb6.gsp
February 7, 2007
1)Draw a circle circumscribed by a triangle - Draw a triangle. Find the angle bisector of each angle of the triangle. From the center point, find the perpendicular line to any side. Find the intersection point. Construct the center radius circle with the two point.s
2) Draw the radius of a circle.
3) Draw the diameter of a circle.
4) Draw a pentagon with exterior angles.
Call it feb7.gsp.
February 8, 2007
Open Sketchpad. Save your document as quads.gsp
1) Create quadrilateral. Define.
2) Copy and paste the rectangle and definition from yesterday.
3) Draw a square. Define it.
4) Draw a parallelogram. Define it.
5) Draw a rhombus. Define it.
6) Draw a kite - adjacent sides congruent.
February 9, 2007
Quadrilateral Maker.
1) Open the gspcycle3 folder in your Shared Math Concepts folder in the lower left corner of the dock.
2) Open your Sketchpad Folder from your documents folder in to the right of the Math Concepts folder.
3) Select the gspcycle3 documents and drag them into your Sketchpad Folder.
4) Open the Quadrilateral Exploration 1 Folder. Open both documents in the folder- Can you make it.gsp and Quardrilateral Maker.gsp.
5) Make those figures.
February 12, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
1) Create a scalene triangle - all sides different.
2) Create an equilateral triangle.
3) Create an isoceles triangle.
4) Create a right triangle.
5) Create an obtuse triangle.
Label the triangles and define them. Save the document in your Sketchpad folder - call it triangle.gsp.(10 points)
Take the homework handout on quadrilaterals and work on it. Turn it in on Wednesday (10 points)
February 13, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Open Can You Make the Picture.gsp
Triangle Makers.gsp. Draw each picture. Save TriangleMakers.gsp as Triangle1.gsp and then open it again to make the second picture. You can use each triangle only once. (10 points). Next, complete the handout - both sides. (10 points)
February 14, 2007
Happy Valentines Day!
Open Sketchpad.
1) Draw a triangle, an equilateral triangle and a right triangle.
2) Find the measure of each angle of the triangles.
3) Find the sum of each angle of a triangle.
4) Do the handout. (10 points)
February 15, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
1) Draw a triangle and find the measure of each angle and the sum of the angles.
2) Do the Sum of the Angles Worksheet using Sketchpad as a guide.
February 16, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Constructing a Perpendicular Bisector.
February 26, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Get the handout - Rectangle with Maximum Area. Follow the steps. Answer the questions.
February 27, 2007
Oen Sketchpad.
Get the handout - The Golden Rectangle. Follow the steps. Answer the questions.
February 28, 2007


1) Open Laura's Golden from the Shared Document folder - Math Concepts on the dock - lower right corner.

2) Enlarge the golden rectangle.

3) Show script from the custom tool.

4) Save As YourNameGoldy.gsp into your Sketchpad folder.

5) Go to the Internet and research The Golden Rectangle. Answer the following in your own words on the gsp document.
a) What is the golden rectangle?
b) Where did it come from?
c) Find interesting data and pictures and add them to your document.
March 1 , 2007
Get the handout - The Golden Rectangle and Ratio. Follow the steps. Answer the questions.
March 2, 2007

1) Open LauraGoldenTwo from the shared document folder. Save it- Save AS -into your folder with your name instead of Laura.
2) Create more and more squares to create a piece of artwork. Draw spirals if you wish.

3) To create a square turn the rectangle on it's long side.
a) Double click the upper left point.
b) Click once on the upper right point.
c) >Transform >Rotate - 90 degrees
d) Double click the new point way up to the left.
e) Select the upper left point of the rectangle.
f) >Transform >Rotate - 90 degrees
g) Select the points of the new square.
h) >Construct >Segments
i) g) Select the points of the new square again.
j) >Construct >Quadrilateral Interior


Look at this interesting website.
Look at this site that combines fibonacci with the golden rectangle.
What the ???
I like this one.
March 5, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Get the handout A Right Triangle With Squares.
Follow the steps.
March 6, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Get the handout A Right Triangle With Squares. Part II
Follow the steps.
March 7, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Draw a square. Save the square as a script.
Find the center of the square.
Draw a right triangle.
Draw squares around the sides of the triangle.
Save it as dissection.gsp
March 8, 2007
Open Sketchpad.
Get the handout The tiled Square Proof
Follow the steps. Answer the questions. Save it asTiledProof.gsp.

March 9, 2007
Open Sketchpad. Get The pythagorean Puzzles.gsp from Group share. Solve the puzzle.
Go to the Internet. Answer the following question on your sketchpad document.
1) Who was Pythagoras?
2) When did he live?
3) Where did he live?
4) What notable things did he do?
Check out these Internet sites.
1) Regents questions.
2) The Pythagorean Theorem.

3) Animated proof

4) Your own lesson
5) Manipula math

6) Practice
Reflection: How many absences do you have? Have you made up the work on the days you were not in class? Maybe it is time to get help at lunch and start making up the work.
March 12, 2007
Open Sketchpad. Wrong way squares.
Get the handout and follow the steps.

1) Draw a square - draw a segment. Double click the left endpoint. Select the right endpoint. Transform. Rotate.OK. Double click the new point. Select the left endpoint. Transform. Rotate. OK. Select the points. Construct Segments.
2) Create a script. Select the square. Select the custom tool. Create new script - Square. Select show script view.
3) Draw a right triangle. Draw a segment. Select the segment and the left endpoint. Construct Perpendicular Line. Put a point on the line. Draw segments connecting the points to create a right triangle. Hide the perpendicular line.
Create the shape as in the hand-out. Answer questions.
March 13, 2007
Open Sketchpad. The Pythagorean Tree.
Get the handout and follow the steps.
1) Draw a square - draw a segment. Double click the left endpoint. Select the right endpoint. Transform. Rotate.OK. Double click the new point. Select the left endpoint. Transform. Rotate. OK. Select the points. Construct Segments.
2)Continue with the steps on the hand out. Note the iterations - A maps to D, B maps to F, A' maps to F, B' maps to C
3) Research the Internet to find the following definitions
a) Recursion
b) Fractal
c) Iterate
d) Parametric
Write answer on your sketchpad document.

March 14, 2007
PI Day!!! Circumference/Diameter Ratio
We will divert from our exploration of Pythagorean Theorem and explore this. Get the handout and step-by-step, follow it. In addtion research the Internet and find out what the following terms mean.

a) Pi - what is it and when and where was it discovered?
b) Irrational Number
c) Circumference
d) Diameter

March 15, 2007
Open Sketchpad. Unsquare Phtyagoras.
Get the handout and follow the steps.
Find the following definitions on the Internet. Use the definition that applies to our lesson.

a) Magnitude
b) Direction
c) Vector
d) dilate

March 16, 2007
Open Sketchpad. How to draw a parabola in Sketchpad.
Get the handout and follow the steps.
Use the Internet to answer the following
1) What is a parabola?
2) What are some practical examples of parabolas?
3) What is a directrix?
4) What is the focus?
5) Who discovered the parabola?
6) What is the locus?

March 19, 2007
Triangle Exploration.
March 20, 2007
A Sine Wave Tracer.
March 21, 2007
A Rotation: Tesselation.
March 22, 2007
Daisy Design.
March 23, 2007
Make up Work.
March 26, 2007
Fractal
March 27, 2007
Cycle 3, 2007 Assessment.
The Pythagorean Theorem.
March 28, 2007
Koch Fractal
March 29, 2007
Introduction to FLASH
March 30, 2007
Last Day of Cycle 3
Make up missed assignements
And so ends Cycle 3, 2007. It's over. Late work is not accepted.