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Here’s the video for today –remember,the test on chapter 11 is next Wednesday!

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics,it’s about experience,it’s about participation,it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious. Daniel Libeskind

In the next couple of days,we’ll be making tesselations. Here’s an example of what students have made in the past…

student tesselations

Here’s the two things you will need for this project. The first is the instruction sheet. Either print it out,or have it handy in another window. The second is the script file for the starting shapes. SAVE it to your student drive and open it with GEOMETER’S SKETCHPAD.

Tesselations Project Instructions

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I thought today we’d do something a little different. I want you to make a ferris wheel in Geometer’s sketchpad. Not just a static picture,but one that rotates and looks cool. Here’s some instructions to get you started,but realize that these instructions are pretty “non-colorful”and there’s really a lot more you can . . . →Read More:Geometers Sketchpad Activity…

Here’s the video for the content today. Please watch closely as I will not cover this another day and youwill be expected to know the material when I return. I have alos loaded the notes from this video on my blog. Thanks!