Hi all! There will be a math assessment next week on transformational geometry (coordinate grids, translations, reflections and rotations). Your child's folder went home to help with studying, but please be aware that we do lots of paperless activities in class. It's important to take a look at past blog posts while studying in order to see the learning that's happening in class... which might not be represented on paper in your child's math folder!
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See some photos of this week's activities below. We'll also continue to investigate these transformations more next week.
For the month of January, we will be learning about 2D geometry. Read below for an overview! Big Ideas for Geometry (Location & Movement) -Transformational geometry can be used to understand and represent locations/directions. -A transformation is a ‘motion’ (translation - slide, reflections - flip, rotations - turn). -Transformations of 2D shapes can result in figures that are similar or congruent to the original figure. -Congruent shapes have identical side lengths, angles, perimeters and areas. -Transformations are often observable in our everyday natural world. Geometry (Location & Movement) -Plot points in 1st quadrant of Cartesian plane -Rotations of 90 and 180, clockwise and counter-clockwise, with center of rotation inside and outside of shape *A focus for Gr 6s (they will be doing this in more depth) -Reflections (flips) and translations (slides) -Identify translations that map congruent shapes onto each other A lot of this 'spirals' back to our geometry learning about triangles and quadrilaterals, so we'll be reinforcing those concepts too as we move forward. Students enjoyed finding the co-ordinates of our Canadian Prime Ministers ("St Laurent was a PRIME MINISTER? I thought it was just a SHOPPING MALL!" #LoveThis). See photos below! Students also created a scalene, obtuse triangle on a geoboard, hid it from their partner, and gave the coordinates of each vertice. Then they checked that they had congruent polygons. This was a great activity to use a lot of math vocabulary! Students enjoyed a battleship type game where they 'hid treasure' - and of course, found it using coordinates. A note about extensions: below are photos of math extensions, designed to be a) on topic with what we are currently learning and b) take your child further in math. Some are fun/easier and others are fun/much harder. The expectation is that if students are done their math work early, they work on a math extension. Up Next: transformations, including translations, reflections and rotations.
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