Beth Bauman

This is an assessment I use in my high school geometry class. I use this right after we finish our unit covering the properties of various quadrilaterals and parallelograms. The assessment has several scenarios that happen in this theoretical amusement park. The students must perform calculations and use known properties/concepts to determine if park rides are safe to operate. It's a fun real-world application and could easily be used as just an in-class activity as well. This document is a wor

This is an assessment I use in my high school geometry class. I use this right after we finish our unit about trigonometry, including sine, cosine, tangent, law of sines, and law of cosines. The assessment has a couple scenarios that happen with this theoretical viking ship. The students must perform calculations and use known properties/concepts help solve problems such as finding the ship's location relative to other objects at sea. It's a fun real-world application and could easily be used as

This is an investigation where students discover the ratios of sine, cosine and tangent in relation to right triangles. I use this with my high school geometry class before they have any idea what those sin, cos, and tan buttons mean on their calculator. Its a fun activity to lead them to discovering the ratios for themselves! Make sure to go over the directions with the class and point out an example of what sides would be the opposite, hypotenuse, and adjacent sides. Students complete the inqu