May 17 '05 Workshop

Piscataway

T.M.T.

A Collaboration between the Piscataway Township Schools & the
Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education (CIESE)

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T.M.T. Workshops -> May 17th, 2005

Today's Activities:

Revisiting the Dynamic Classroom and other preliminaries
Progress report on classroom visits

Activities involving Geometer's Sketchpad
- Finding Area of Polygons Using Pick's Rule
  Use this applet to help you discover the rule.
  Download the geoboard for Geometer's Sketchpad.
  Click here for instructions of how to create this geoboard.
- Tesselations
- What are they? Pure and Semi-pure Regular Tesselations
- Sketchpad files for making pure and semi-pure tesselations
- Exploring and Creating Tesselations (PDF file)
- Pattern block tessellations - handout & applet

Activities involving Excel, Microworld & Java Applets

Repeating and Terminating Decimals - Can every fraction be written as a repeating decimal?

Revisiting the Million three-Cube Roll Race - How's it going?
Fraction Darts - The object of the Fraction Darts challenge is to "pop" balloons located on a number line between 0 and 1.
Decimal Darts - Same game only this time you use decimal fractions.

	Spiros
	Billiards

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