09 May 2023 Grade 12 Essentials Math. Word of the Day: Polygons
Announcement(s)
- Teachers at Conference Wed, Thurs, Friday. No classes. Still expected to do some self-directed learning while teachers are at conference later this week. Teacher will still publish a daily blog!! Sufficient worksheets are issued.
- Issued progress reports again so students can catch up in the three days teachers are away.
- Regular Weekly Thursday Quiz will be on-line this week during regular class time.
Todays’ Lesson(s)
- Warm up. Geometry Angles Worksheet (not handin, issued Friday)
- Triangle Calculator . Try it out. Type in three values, it calculates all the rest! Or maybe ypou prefer this Irregular Triangle Calculator
- Read and Do Unit G Notes pp. 19-23 Polygons. Shapes with more than three straight sides! Oh My!
- Lesson Support Videos: Polygons
- Assgt: G-7 Polygon Angle Sum In class [done]
- Assgt C-8 Polygon Practice and Cental Angles Assignments
- Glossary. Have you checked out the glossary at the back of the notes? Knowing the meaning of words is the beginning of wisdom.
- Issue Weekly Progress Reports (effective 9 May) so students know what they need to catch up on still while teacher off at conference.
- Unit A – Problem Solve. Issued yesterday several Unit A Assignments for Problem Solving. How do you think? How do you solve problems? Some suggested methods. I issued an A-4 Make a Table, A-5 Solve Simple Version, A-6 Use a Formula, A-7 Various Problems! Watch the blog(s) for some suggested ways to solve! I will guide a bit of your learning in my daily blog while at conference.
- Trigonometry Practice. Here the Practice Test we had back in Grade 11. Good idea to do it again! Not Hand-in. Here are the answers available in the Unit G Webpage: Trig Practice Answers
- Unit G Workbook. And yes, you probably noticed we have Unit G Workbook of Past Exam Questions. Just try some of that without the printout on your own on blank paper.
Useful Resources.
- See previous blogs for ample suggested current resourcers. Blog has search feature at bottom.
- Triangle Calculator. Just type in three values and the App solves the entire triangle for you! Good way to check your work?
- Doing Homework without a printed Copy. Easy. Check Video: Doing Work without a Hard Copy. In the old days we did not have printers and photocopiers. We copied the question off the board [screen] and did it on paper.