Curriculum Page for Math101


Monday and Tuesday's Class

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Your assignment for this day is to investigate symmetry and tessellations. Find the definition of a tessellation, and find images of tessellations that you can find on the website.You may choose from the different activities that are found on the website. Follow the instructions and complete one of the activities. You may write a brief report and present it to the class, or you may turn in your results of your investigation. If you choose to use PowerPoint, you must have a minimum of 12 slides. You can work in collaborative learning groups of two or three.
You may use the following books on my desk for reference: Designing tessellations : the secrets of interlocking patterns and Introduction to tessellations
Here are a couple of sites that may assist you in your search.


INVESTIGATING PATTERNS: SYMMETRY AND TESSELLATIONS
http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~jbritton/jbsymteslk.htm
Tessellation image
TESSELLATIONS
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/tesspag1.html

Go to the following website and explore the tutorial with Claris Works and HyperStudio:

     http://mathforum.org/alejandre/otherlist.html

Wednesday and Thursday's class

What is the difference between a tessellation and a fractal? Your assignment for this day is to investigate Fractals. You may work in groups of three or four and present some of your favourite fractals to the class. You will use the school's computer lab to look on the internet to find fractals. You can use PowerPoint, HyperStudio or Netscape Composer to present your findings to the class in the form of a presentation or a web page. Make sure to have your source cited, and get permission from the creator of the images before you present them. You should link your page to the source of the fractals, and let the creator know of your site so that he/she may visit it.
FRACTALS
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractals.html
Cool Math for Kids website
You may generate your own fractals by downloading the Fractint program at : http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html
or fractal software at:  http://fractalarts.com/ASF/index.html

Other FRACTAL WEBSITES
Fractal

What is The Sierpinski Triangle? Find out at Suzanne Alejandre's site, and see if you can draw one. Answer the Math questions (at the bottom of page) on the Sierpinski Triangle link.
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/workshops/fractal/fractal3.html

http://cocoa.hs.brevard.k12.fl.us/frames/mainframe2.html

Friday's class

In Today's class we will look for various games, tricks and puzzles that you can find on the internet. You will find five of your choice and introduce them to your classmates.
SITE FOR GAMES
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

MATH GAMES AND TRICKS
http://members.tripod.com/~dericky/games.htm
PUZZLES
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/


Homework assignment:

For this assigment you will choose the Algebra, Middle School and Geometry section on this site, and submit your answers. If you get your answers correct your name will be listed among students in high school from all over the world. You should get a response to your submission within a few days. Hand in your answers to the questions by Friday at noon of this week.

PROBLEM OF THE WEEK WEBSITE:
funny looking face
http://www.olemiss.edu/mathed/contest/contests.htm

OTHER MATH SITES
http://www.hrmvideo.com/abmath
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/laac/menu.html
http://www.mathdork.com/
 


HOMEWORK HELPERS FOR STUDENTS
http://mathforum.org/dr.math

Lesson Plan.doc
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