Fitz Math Class Update for Week of 3/9

Here is an update for the Fitz Math Class for the final week of the 3rd quarter!

6A - Monday - inclass writing assignment
Tuesday - Kaitlyn McBride teaching "Graphs"
Wednesday - Patsy Boone teaching "Mean, Mode, Median, & Range"
Thursday - Thomas Price teaching "Symmetry"
Friday - Grand celebration of Pi Day enjoyed by all!

6B - Monday - Cameron Frank teaching "GCF/LCM"
Tuesday - Mr Fitz teaching "Graphs"
Wednesday - DJ Holt teaching "Mean, Mode, Median, & Range"
Thursday - Hannah Tolson teaching "Sales Tax"
Friday - Grand celebration of Pi Day enjoyed by all!

Future Teacher Confirmations

A big thank you to Jensen Hidder, Annalisa Wood, and Chris Siburg for teaching prime factorization and coordinate planes, respectively. They all did a wonderful job and I was very proud of them!

Here is a list of who I have left on my list:

Thomas Price - Symmetry
Cameron Frank - GCF/LCM
DJ Holt - Mode, Median, Mean
Patsy Boone - Mode, Median, Mean
Kaitlyn McBride - Graphs
Hannah Tolson - Sales Tax
Maddie Wood - Probability

Please show me your lesson plans for your teaching day as soon as possible so we can schedule the day you will teach your class. Thanks!

PI Day Celebration!

Just a reminder that on Friday, March 13th we will be celebrating Pi day with Mrs. Stevenson's class in the Great Hall.

Please feel free to bring a store bought pie to school that day in order to help celebrate this momentous "holiday"!

For Those That Would Like To Teach!

Hello my future teachers! Below is a list of topics that I would love for one of you to teach:

Sales Tax
Prime Factorization
GCF / LCM
Mode, Median, Mean, Range
Probability
Lines of Symmetry
Coordinate Plane - Shapes
Graphs

You will need to come up with a lesson plan which includes a teaching objective, an explanation, an activity, an assignment, and an assessment...

Please let me know if you are interested in any of these topics or have your own that you would like to do!

7-5 Working with Percents

% multiplied by "of" = 100 mutliplied by "is" ...

ALL PERCENT PROBLEMS!

There are four items or elements to each percent problem. One of them is always 100. Therefore, there are three possible unknowns in the problem - you must be given at least two of the three. Fill the known values into the above equation and solve for the unknown...

The above equation should be written first for ALL problems! Then your paper should show a logical, vertical progression revealing each step to ultimately arrive at the answer.

Chapter 9 - SELF-TEST A

p. 325 Self-Test A #1-14 ALL - Due Tuesday, Feb, 17th!!!

Please draw all the pictures, label all the pictures, write all the formulas, show your work, label your answer correctly!

Use a ruler - even if you don't know "how" to solve the problem, you should still be able to do all of the above...

9-3 Area of Circles

Area of a Circle = Pi x radius squared.

Radius = 1/2 of the diameter of a circle.

Pi is approx = to 3.14

Circumference = 2 x Pi x Radius

draw the picture! make sure that your answer makes sense!

Always use Pi = 3.14 not 22/7!!!

REMEMBER - a number raised to the power of 2 is not MULTIPLIED by 2 it means to multiply the number times itself!

9-2 Areas of Quadrilaterals

Area of parallelogram = Base X Height

Base can be the length of any of the four sides.
Height is the perpendicular distance (the distance that forms a right angle with the chosen base) from the base to the opposite side.

Area of trapezoid = (b1+b2)H / 2; length of base 1 plus length of base 2 multiplied by the height and then divided by 2.

The bases of the trapezoid are the parallel sides. The height is the perpendicular distance between the bases.

9-1 Areas of Rectangles and Triangles

Area of Rectangle = length x width

The length and width of the rectangle can be either measurement...

Area of Triangle = base x height / 2

The area of trianlge is 1/2 the area of the rectangle that contains it!

A hectare = 10,000 square meters

Please draw a picture for EVERY problem!
Please write a formula for EVERY problem!

Chapter 6 Test Return!

chapter 6 test returned in class today - your score is out of a possible 70 points!

Please complete corrections for all the problems the you got wrong on a separate piece of paper, staple it to the back of your test, and turn in at the beginning of class tomorrow.

If you finish in class, you may work on Sudoku...

Chapter 6 Test

I hope you did well on your test today!

Puzzling Friday tomorrow!

6-9 Congruent Poygons

Polygons that have the same side lengths and the same angle measures.

3 motions include: TRANSLATION - ROTATION - REFLECTION

Triangles can be proven congruent based on:

SIDE - ANGLE - SIDE

ANGLE - SIDE - ANGLE

SIDE - SIDE - SIDE

Please review Chapter 6 concepts...our Chapter 6 test will be on Thursday!

6-8 Polygons and Their Perimeters

POLYGON is a closed figure consisting of line segments joined at their endpoints.

The points are VERTICES and the segments are SIDES.

PENTAGON - 5 sides, HEXAGON - 6 sides, OCTAGON - 8 sides, DECAGON - 10 sides

PERIMETER of a polygon is the sum of the lengths of the sides.

If all sides and all angles of a polygon are CONGRUENT, the polygon in called REGULAR

Points, Lines, and Rays Packet

Please complete the 4 page packet for class tomorrow!( Friday Jan 23)

Please make sure that you have spelled everything correctly.

You do not have to MEASURE any of the angles despite the instructions.

This material will make up one third of next week's test on Chapter 6 so please make sure that you understand everything. If not, come see me in the morning!

6-7 Special Quadrilaterals

QUADRILATERAL is a 4 - sided closed figure.

PARALLELOGRAM has 2 pairs of parallel sides, opposite sides are congruent, and opposite angles are congruent.

RHOMBUS has 2 pairs of parallel sides, opposite angles are congruent, and all four sides are congruent.

RECTANGLE has 2 pairs of parallel sides, opposite sides are congruent, and it has four right angles.

SQUARE has 2 pairs of parallel sides, four right angles, and four sides are congruent.

ISOCELES TRAPEZOID has one pair of parallel sides, the nonparallel sides are congruent, and two pairs of congruent angles.

6-6 Triangles

There are 180 degrees in a trianlge.

A triangle contains 3 sides, 3 angles, and 3 vertices.

Triangles may be classified by angle measure:

An ACUTE triangle contains 3 acute angles.

An OBTUSE triangle contains 1 obtuse angle.

A RIGHT triangle contains1 right angle.

Triangles may also be classified by side length:

A SCALENE triangle has no equal sides.

An ISOSCELES triangle has 2 equal sides (and 2 equal angles)

An EQUILATERAL triangle has 3 equal sides (and 3 equal angles which each = 60 degrees)

Please familiarize yourself with the different triangles based on ANGLES and SIDES!

Math is Difficult!

Hey Everyone,

In case some of you forgot, math can be difficult, hard, confusing, tedious, frustrating, and annoying! This is a good thing. It is your own personal journey working through such complex concepts and ideas that will ultimately develop your mind and allow you to analyze new ideas, deal with and work through challenges, and become a better thinker...

I know this work is difficult - DON'T GIVE UP! You are each smarter and have more potential than you could possibly imagine...

Have a great weekend!

6-5 Parallel Lines

TRANSVERSAL - a line that intersect two other coplanar lines...

If a transversal crosses two parallel lines, eight angles are formed.

CORRESPONDING angles are CONGRUENT.

VERTICAL angles are CONGRUENT.

ALTERNATE INTERIOR angles are CONGRUENT.

(Don't forget about complementary and supplementary angles also while you are doing these problems!)

6-4 Special Angles

Perpendicular - when two lines intersect to form right angles (90 degrees)

Complementary Angles - two angles whose measures have a sum of 90 degrees.

Supplementary Angles - two angles whose measures have a sum of 180 degrees.

Vertical Angles - when two lines intersect to form four angles - the nonadjacent (or opposite) angles are called vertical angles and they are CONGRUENT.

6-3 Angles

An angle is formed by two RAYS with a common endpoint called the VERTEX.

The rays are called the SIDES ofthe angle.

An angle is named with three letters, the middle letter must always be the vertex.

Acute angles measure between 0 and 90 degrees

Right angles = 90 degrees

Obtuse angles measure between 90 and 180 degrees

Two angles that have a common side and a common endpoint and DO NOT OVERLAP are called ADJACENT angles.

A ray that divides an angle into two CONGRUENT angles is said to BISECT the angle. This ray is also called an ANGLE BISECTOR.

6.2 Circles

Please understand the following:

Center point of circle is the name of the circle.
Radius is the distance from the center of the circle to a point on the circle - it is a line segment.
The plural of radius is radii.
Radius is represented with "r"
Diameter is the line segment from one point on the circle, through the center of the circle, and to another point on the circle.
The Diameter is, therefore, twice the length of the radius!
Diameter is represented with "D".
The Diameter separates the circle into two, congruent, semi-circles.
A chord is a line segment from one point on a circle to another point on the circle that does not go through the center of the circle.
Circumference = Pi (3.14) x D
A circle contains 360 degrees
A semi-circle contains 180 degrees...

Please familiarize yourself with all the different parts and relationships in a circle!

Please know where Pi came from for tomorrow's quiz!

6.1 Points, Lines, and Planes

Today we began our chapter on Geometry! We learned that:
At least TWO points determine a line...
Points on the same line are COLLINEAR.
Points on the same plane are COPLANAR.
Exactly the same in size and shape is CONGRUENT.

You should be able to identify and name - lines, line segments, rays, endpoints, collinear points, coplanar points, and things that are congruent.

Spend just a few minutes today looking over this material. If you have any insights to share, suggestions to offer, or questions to ask - post them!

TED

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The site is www.ted.com

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

Be inspired to be a TED contributor one day!

Student Journals!

Hey students!

Please make sure that you bring your new spiral journals to class this Friday, January 9th - so that you can complete three things in class:
(1) put your name on the front and decorate your journal
(2) your first entry should be to write down everything that you have learned in math so far this year
(3) your second entry should be to write down everything that you hope to learn in the second semester

I will have a bin in the room labeled..."Student journals" please make sure that you put your journal in this bin at the end of class so you will always know where to find it!

I will not be in class this Friday because I am headed back to New Jersey for my next to last weekend of school at Seton Hall University. Look forward to seeing all of you on Monday!

Mr. Fitz