First off, this week the 7th and 8th graders at Ray continue our partnership with The Revival (Hyde Parks' improv theater). Through a generous grant that Ray won from Ingenuity, we are doing an arts integration project where we are combining the process and practice of theater/improv with the mathematical practice standards. In the coming weeks we will start explicitly connecting the theater/improv thinking with math thinking. Jeff Gandy from The Revival will be co-teaching with me Mondays and Wednesdays for the next 9 weeks.
Second, I am going to start a weekly Khan connection by giving topic students should consider for the weekly 6000 points on Khan. These topics will help the students with the content we are studying this week. Use the following search terms to find out what content we are studying this week.
Khan for 7th
Intro to Nets of Polyhedra
Volume of triangular prism and cube
Volume of a Cylinder
Khan for 8th
Intro to Geometric Transformations
Practice translations
P.S.: 7th grades-- Awesome Math Antics video for help understanding Volume: HERE!!!
P.P.S.: 7th graders--really terrific visualizer for volume of prisms from NCTM Illuminations: HERE!!!!
