Here is a review of our favorite sites:

Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television

Tessellations, like Busy Beetles puzzle

more tessellations

and, Fun Brain

This week’s links are few, but the second one for Villainy, Inc. has a very complicated math game I htink you will like.

• Triangle Classification
• Villainy, Inc. | Maryland Public Television

Ratio and Proportion

Cynthia Lanius’ Lessons: All About Ratios

Cyberchase . Games . Point Out the View | PBS Kids

Math Forum: Types of Symmetry in the Plane

Here are our links for Mathematics this week:

• The GoldenRatio a proportion/ratio dating back to Ancient Greece
• Pi illustration
• Tessellations, which are related to transformations which we will be studying

I got some great answers to last week’s math question, but the students did not give a clear explanation of why you came up with your answer. Here is last week’s question, and the answers. See if you can explain it better there.

We will be studying probability, and operations with fractions and decimals. 

Here are our Math Links for the week:

• Probability game
• Fractions and decimals

Here are our links for the week:

• Coordinate Geometry
• Order of Operations game on FunBrain
• Build Tessellations (like Busy Beetles)

We continue our review of integers (that’s negative numbers) and fractions:

This week we will be studying:

• Area
• Proportions
• Coolmath on angles in polygons

Last week’s question was not answered correctly. Remember, I need both the area and the perimeter.

Question:  What is the area of a triangle where the base is 10 cm, the sides are 6 and 7 cm, and the height is 8 cm? What is the perimeter of that triangle?

This week, we do more on Decimals, Fractions, and Percents. I’ve put the tessellation site for fun.

• Measurement on Yahooligans
• Decimals and %
• Order of Operations game on FunBrain
• Build Tessellations (like Busy Beetles)

This week’s mathematics question. You must answer in a full sentence or sentences, and explain how you solved the problem. Answers that don’t have that, will not be posted.

Question:  What is the area of a triangle where the base is 10 cm, the sides are 6 and 7 cm, and the height is 8 cm? What is the perimeter of that triangle?

Here are this week’s links:

• Play safe cracker to work with negative numbers
• Fraction Rythyms from Phil Tulga’s site: Go to the bottom, select the songs button, and pick out some of the drum signals from the Revolutionary War.

This week’s question, what is 5 + 4 – 3 x 2 ÷ 1?