Sentient Geometry

An engaging, real word project/activity for students to investigate the landing of a commercial plane in the Hudson River. Students use their knowledge of all 3 trig ratios and their inverse to solve all the aspects in this activity. materials required: poster paper or butcher paper colors (markers or colored pencils) protractor ruler and / or yard stick calculator I have included instructions, and rubric in 3 formats (PDF, word, and ODT) I also have included a sheet with plane context for s

The Logic Unit can be pretty dry, but students can apply what they’ve learned in this unit to design their own board game! They will incorporate conditional statements for their rules, and use the concepts of logic to structure their game. The rubric grades the following concepts: Conditional statements, converse, inverse, contrapositive, biconditional, law of detachment, syllogism, inductive and deductive reasoning, and counter examples. Students must write their own cards to play the game (t