Thursday, February 4, 2016

Stein - Math 8 Plus - Thursday, February 4, 2016

Classwork

Today, students completed 1.3, A-C on page 13. Students reviewed how to find areas of squares, rectangles and triangles and applied this knowledge to find the area of irregular figures. Students used geoboards to help them discover different strategies.

Focus Question

"How does knowing how to calculate areas of rectangles, triangles and squares help in the calculation of irregular areas?"

Homework

#15-25 (on handout or page 16) and #37-38 (pages 18-19) Answers to yesterday's homework, today's notes and a geoboard app are all available at http://norupstein.weebly.com/.


 

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