Monday, December 14, 2015

Wrapping up first semester in geometry

At this point, we are coming up on finals. I am not introducing any new material but trying to give students a chance to work through a variety of problems. Since the focus has been on building conceptual knowledge, students need some time to practice using the building blocks they have learned.

As for the quiz, about 1/3 of students did a fair to good job explaining the diagonal formula. One student did an exceptional job. The rest did not put thought into the situation and simply said that n represented the number of sides. Period. The biggest issue in the explanations was explaining why n multiples (n - 3).

I'll be back to go through progress second semester starting in January.

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