Math

It is the final blog post of this semester! I can say that through making bi-weekly reflections, I have solidified my understandings of mathematical concepts.  In this blog post, we will be discussing weeks 10 and 11. Week 10 -  Data Management and Probability.   This class began with our learning presentation activities. My classmate Jacob created a well developed worksheet that exploited Probability. His worksheet allowed for us to determine the probability, and also create our own terms of probability. For example, you were able to select how many marbles you wanted to represent the "more likely" probability and you were able to select the amount of marbles that represent the "less likely" probability. For the first question, a student can choose to colour 9 red marbles, and 1 green marble or 8 red marbles, and 2 green marbles, and so on. This gives the student the opportunity to control the outcome and make the question their own, while learning important ...

This week we will discuss weeks 8 and 9 GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE  In week 8 we discuss geometry and spatial sense. It was a great way to refresh skills that I have not used in a while. Our learning activity presentation was done by my classmate Lilliana. She cut out plastic straws to use as manipulatives. Each straw was a different measurements, we used the straws to model different types of triangles. We where to construct scalene, isosceles and equilateral triangles. This was a great activity because it allowed us to use manipulatives to visually see the differences in triangles. We also used connecting sticks to model triangles. Each stick had a different size. Our teacher challenged us to try to create a triangle which had two side lengths that could not touch. As seen in the image.  After our learning presentation we began our lesson. We began by discussing Reflective Symmetry the "fold line" which is the axis of symmetry. We where to draw a paralle...