Math-Week of Jan. 30th

Our Geometry unit is in full swing! This week we will continue building our Geometry City. The creation of this Geometry City is an example of Project Based Learning. The students have already drawn a map of their city. They connected sections of centimeter grid paper together to make the sections of their city. Connecting the sections was especially tricky because they needed to connect at a certain spot so the roads would connect. Now we are making 3-D buildings for our city and we will measure the perimeter and area of all the building's footprints. On Thursday and Friday, we will be working on a 2-day math performance task. Performance tasks are real world math problems. We will compare and discuss our different solutions to our task Building a Rabbit Pen.