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Teaching Guide
[Geometry In Your Neighborhood]
produced by
[David Boyd]
Web Institute for Teachers, Summer, 2003
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Aim
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Audience
Prerequisites
Subject-Matter
Instructional Plan
Materials
Assessment and Evaluation
Appendices
Resources
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Introduction: Since the
earliest days of civilization, men has always provided shelter for
themselves and their families. Even in the most primative of
dwellings, geometry and architecture has coexisted.
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Aim: To awaken students to their
everyday interaction with geometry and architecture by using their
neighborhood and downtown Chicago's skyline.
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Rationale: While teaching
algebra, I found it most challenging to get my
students to connect the materials taught to their everyday
lives. They just couldn't rationalize the importance of the
quadratic equation in their every day lives. Since geometry is so
visual, it easily lends itself to the students applying
the mathematics studied in the classroom and relate it to
the architecture that surrounds them.
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Goals and Objectives: Students
will be able to:
a. appreciate and
enjoy architecture that surrounds them
b.
identify geometric shapes that
makes up a structure
c.
use floorplans of a given structure to calculate area and
perimeter of plane figures.
d. investigate the
history of a stucture of their liking to see how geomtric figures were
used to alleviate probems that may
have arisen during construction.
e.
understand the properties of polygons and circles.
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Audience: Sophmore high school
students.
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Prerequisites: Algebra 1
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Subject-Matter: Areas
of polygons, circles and triangles.
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Instructional Plan:
Students will go to selected websites and view
photographs of buildings that comprises the
Chicgo downtown skyline. Upon viewing a building,
they will print out the pictures and using color pencils, they
will trace and identify the geometric shape that makes up the
structure. The students will pretend that they own a carpet
house and they won the bid to furnish a particular floor of a
building. Include in your pricing floor moulding.
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Materials: Computers,
TI30 calculators, rulers, protractors
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Assessment and Evaluation
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Appendices (optional,
if needed)
Resources
http://www.nycenet.edu/oit/math-kitecture/resources.htm
www.pbs.org/
wgbh/buildingbig/
index.html
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Developed by Janet
Gray-McKennis based on previous versions created by Craig Cunningham,
Mecca Murphy, Nenette Luarca, Nicole Zumpano, and Linda Dernbach.
Last updated on May 10, 2003.
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