Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Corrected Lesson 10 in class
Gave Mastery Test 1B on p T2
Assignment due Thursday
Lesson 11 parts 1-10
Lesson 12 parts 1-11

Thursday, October 25, 2012

TED Talks on the math behind Origami

Corrected Lesson 9
In class we did Lesson 10 in Workbook
Assignment: Do Lesson 10 Parts 1-13, Due Tuesday

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Thursday, October 18, 2012

We reviewed Lesson 7, We did Lesson 8 Parts 1 and 2 in class. Students have been assigned Parts 3-13 to do as homework. Due next Tuesday.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

In class collect lesson 6 parts 7-13
Reviewed "Angle of Inspiration" the Sundial Bridge engineer and designer Santiago Calatrava.
Did Mastery Test 1A. If your absent it is in your text book on page T1. answer on paper and bring to class on Thursday.
Assignment: Complete Lesson 7 and do PARTS 1-12 all. Due Thursday.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Corrected and Checked in Lesson 5,
Started  Lesson 6 in class.
Homework: Do PARTS 7 - 13 on pages 22-23.

Theme Park Math - Dealing with Trajectory: Angle, Degree, Distance, Speed, Weight, Gravity, Parabola,

Formulas on Trigonometry and Physics

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Design and Models from Disney Imagineers. How do engineers use math to create products? Its called an Engineering Design Process! A problem solving procedure.

  • Step 1. Need or Problem
  • Step 2. Identify constraints or requirements
  • Step 3. Brain Storm
  • Step 4. Approach / Concept Drawing
  • Step 5. Build Models - Scale Models. Ratio, replica, model, 
  • Step 6. Build it.
  • Step 7: Interive - Redesign, Teamwork
Disney Imagineer:
Joe Rohde
Todd Camill
Michael Valentino
Joe Herrington

Assignment:
Do 

Thursday, October 4, 2012

correct lesson 4, in class do parts 19 - 21
progress report review for period 2
tutoring / catch up time

Tuesday, October 2, 2012


  • Reviewed homework, graded and turned in.
  • In class we went over Lesson 4
  • Assigned for homework Lesson 4 Part 8 questions a-g; Parts 11-18 all questions.