Ten Day Lesson Plan
You may want to vary the lessons from
day to day according to your classroom. If students finish assignments
on any given day they may visit web sites to solve Tangram puzzles.
Day 1
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Give students pre-exam questionnaire.
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Introduce and discuss geometry, tangrams,
and vocabulary terms that will be covered in this curriculum.
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Give internet quiz.
Homework
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Complete Math Vocabulary Word Search.
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Study Math Vocabulary Words and Definitions
Day 2
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Collect and discuss homework. (Which
word was the most difficult to find?)
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Discuss and review internet quiz.
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Let students view web sites for angles,
similar figures and triangles.
Day 3
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Use an overhead projector and a protractor
to illustrate how various angles are made.
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Illustrate by making the following angles
an acute, right, obtuse, complementary and supplementary.
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Students will construct the following
angles by degrees 37, 90, 123, 25 and 65, and 78 and 102.
Day 4
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Students will make tangrams using the
web site.
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Refer to day three and have students
measure the angles on the tangram sets they created.
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Combine angles to create complementary
and supplementary angles.
Day 5
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Students select 20 of the 32 vocabulary
words and create a word search and an answer key.
Day 6
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Students select 20 of the 32 vocabulary
words and create a crossword puzzle and an answer key.
Day 7
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Solve tangram puzzles from the internet.
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Create tangram puzzles for students to
solve.
Day 8
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Use Bloom's Taxonomy to create problem
solving questions. I have created some sample questions for you to
view.
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Complete Angles Quiz.
Day 9
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Complete Math Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle.
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Complete Math Vocabulary Spelling Test.
Day 10
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Complete Math Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle.
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