Translation, rotations, reflections, and glide

Translation: This would be an image example of translation



Rotation: This would be an image example of rotation



Reflection: This would be an image example of reflection


Glide reflection: This would an image example of glide reflection

In the real world there are many examples that we would see these types of rigid motions.
A perfect reflection example would be a mirror reflection of yourself. This website really helped me understand it more because it was visually with explanation.



https://edisk.fandm.edu/annalisa.crannell/hm/math/Rigid_Motion.html

Pythagorean Theorem

Pythagorean theorem only applies to right angles is what I learned. The two sites that I looked at were great because one of them gave an example of a word problem and step by step on how to solve it. What was neat about this site is that it also included two more videos about word problems with Pythagorean theorem if needing more help on it. The other site was a video that talked more of what Pythagorean theorem is all about which was really awesome to know about. In my class I had a hard time learning how to find for one triangle, but with drawing it out helped out a lot.

Word problem: The most important part about a word problem is to draw a picture.  This gives us a way to organize all the information and usually reveals what we need to do to solve the problem.

Let's take a look at an example:

A 30 foot ladder reaches the roof of a building that is 22 feet high.  How far is the bottom of the ladder from the bottom of the building?

http://elearn.mpls.k12.mn.us/students/mod/page/view.php?id=47918


http://www.teachertube.com/video/pythagorean-theorem-intro-361256

Tesselations

http://www.teachertube.com/video/tessellations-23468

http://www.teachertube.com/video/tessellations-2984

http://www.teachertube.com/video/tessellations-162229

I would have to say that teachertube.com was a really great site to look at. Not only did they had a variety of videos with great explanation that helped me understand. I think that children learning about tessellation would have an awesome time learning about it because they can be hands on with creating their own pattern to do while learning at same time. I know that I had a fun time learning about tessellation especially seeing all the pattern that can be created. One thing I learned is that there can never be no gap in tessellation and that only a square, equilateral triangle, and a regular hexagon can tessellate a plane.

Tessellation example:

Surface Area and Volume

Surface Area

Rectangular prism, we know that it is a prism because it has two bases top and bottom. For word problems I find it helpful to draw it out so that I can visually see it. Especially on this one for me because I found it really hard on focusing on just reading the problem. I found a great site that explains a lot more along with examples. This site really helped me out visually on the explanation of lateral faces.

Total Surface Area:
The total surface area of a prism or pyramid is the combined area of its lateral faces
and its base(s). Similarly, the total surface area of a cylinder or cone is the combined
area of its lateral surface and its base(s). The total surface area of a solid can also be
thought of as the area of the solid’s net.

Lateral Area:
The lateral area of a prism or pyramid is the combined area of its lateral faces.
Similarly, the lateral area of a cylinder or cone is the area of its lateral surface.




http://online.math.uh.edu/MiddleSchool/Modules/Module_3_Measurement/Content/SurfaceAreaandVolume-TEXT.pdf




Volume of three dimensional figures


Here are great example of real life things that resemble volume shapes.


I think that its great to be able to point out things that resemble shapes to teach to students or to let them think what kind of things they see in real life that can resemble the volume shapes.
For me having to draw a visual shape of the volume helps me a lot along with using the formula. Here I have two great sites that talk about volume and greater depth of it, along with volume formulas.There is also videos that can help out a lot too such as teachertube.com. I know that with any explanation that I need either a visual picture of it or someone explaining it to me step by step which is definitely helpful.





http://www.asu.edu/courses/mat142ej/geometry/Geometry.pdf

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/EMAT6680.2003.fall/Montgomery/EMAT6690/Instructional%20Unit/Volume/InstructionalUnitVolume.html

Area of Polygons

 It is important to know about this type of lesson because we would have to use it in our lives at some point and it doesn't have to involve just fencing around a home. Using the formula really helps a lot to understand the concept of area of polygons. I have here a formula box for area of polygons. I got this formula box from the site I looked at and posted it here. There was another site that I found that was also very helpful in explaining which I also posted and it also had links to other sites for more help.
Learning about the area of polygons wasn't so hard for me and so it was good. There is also another way to learn about the area of polygons such as using the geoboard. I think using the geoboard on children is a great way to learn the area of polgons. They get to learn hands on instead of just paper and pencil. There are also videos that help with learning about this type of geometry as well, such as teachertube.com which I found pretty cool.





http://www.asu.edu/courses/mat142ej/geometry/Geometry.pdf

http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emt668/EMT668.Folders.F97/Hales/lessons/lesson1/lesson%231.html

Bio

Me

Hey everybody my name is Blanca and I want to be a teacher! : ) Specifically I want to major as a special education teacher. My other goal is to teach post secondary environmental science later on. I have always enjoyed learning each subject in class when I was a young girl, I loved school and still do! That is why I want to be a teacher, so that I can give back what my teachers did for me, which was the enjoyment of learning and also helping me out when I couldn't understand certain subjects.
Growing up as a young girl in school I had a learning disability and speech problems. Although it was very hard for me at times I loved learning. Right after high school I immediately enrolled at MCC and planned on majoring in education, that was my goal. However I began to doubt myself because of people telling me I couldn't do it, a lot of it came from my father telling me that being teacher isn't a great career, and  I began to feel even worse because of my disability also. I took a break from MCC and came back to realize that in my heart I want to be a teacher because I can see myself being happy on helping children learn. I believe that anyone can be anything they want, if you put your mind and your heart you will achieve it. That's what I want to tell to my future students. :)