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Lesson Plan
TEKS addressed:
2) Geometric thinking and spatial reasoning. Spatial reasoning plays a critical role in
geometry; shapes and figures provide powerful ways to represent mathematical situations
and to express generalizations about space and spatial relationships. Students use
geometric thinking to understand mathematical concepts and the relationships among
them.
(4) The relationship between geometry, other mathematics, and other disciplines.
Geometry can be used to model and represent many mathematical and real-world
situations. Students perceive the connection between geometry and the real and
mathematical worlds and use geometric ideas, relationships, and properties to solve
problems.
(6) Underlying mathematical processes. Many processes underlie all content areas in
mathematics. As they do mathematics, students continually use problem-solving,
computation in problem-solving contexts, language and communication, connections
within and outside mathematics, and reasoning, as well as multiple representations,
applications and modeling, and justification and proof.
(2) The student analyzes geometric relationships in order to make and verify conjectures.
Following are performance descriptions.
(A) The student uses constructions to explore attributes of geometric figures and
to make conjectures about geometric relationships.
(B) The student makes and verifies conjectures about angles, lines, polygons,
circles, and three-dimensional figures, choosing from a variety of approaches such
as coordinate, transformational, or axiomatic.
The Lesson:
I. Overview
The goal of this lesson is to have students determine the distance formula and
relate this to the equation of a circle. Students will determine the formulas for
midpoint and slope. This will be done through problem-solving.
Day 1
Five-E Organization
Engage:
Learning Experience Student Activity
Quickly review Pythagorean Theorem. Students are listening and answering
(assess prior knowledge) questions.
Set up problem that asks students to find
formula for the shortest distance between 2
points.
Explore:
Learning Experience(s) What the students are doing
Teacher is walking around to each group Students are working in groups to discover
assessing their progress. the distance formula.
Day 2
Explain:
Learning Experience(s) What the students are doing
Teacher is listening to students’ ideas. Groups are presenting their work.
Calling on different students to give their
opinions. Students are listening and correcting their
mistakes.
Evaluate
The teacher will ask questions to guide the review and the steps to take to find the formula.
Extend / Elaborate:
Learning Experience(s) What the students are doing
If time permits, show students how this Students are listening and paying attention to
formula relates to the equation for a circle. teacher.
Teacher will assign worksheet for
homework extra practice. Students are excited to use the new approach
to find out the distance between two points.
Evaluate
Each student is looking at the questions and thinking about how they will solve them at home.
Day 3
Five-E Organization
Engage:
Learning Experience Student Activity
Reintroduce graph from first day. Students are listening and answering
Reflect on constructing a perp. line with a questions.
compass to show them the midpoint.
Questions
1. How do you draw a perpendicular Expected Student Answers
line recalling the lesson on Friday? 1. With a compass. Students will
(have them explain) explain how.
2. Is there a midpoint on this line? 2. Yes, the point where the perp. line and
the original line intersect.
3. What is a midpoint? 3. A point half-way between two points
on a line.
4. Can anyone define slope? 4. Slant—rate of change.
5. Think about the slope of this line. 5. Students will get into groups.
Can you find it?
Evaluate
Explore:
Learning Experience(s) What the students are doing
Teacher is walking around to each group Students are working in groups to discover
assessing their progress. the midpoint formula. Once a group has it,
teacher will okay to move on to finding the
slope formula.
Explain:
Learning Experience(s) What the students are doing
Teacher is listening to students’ ideas. Groups are presenting their work.
Calling on different students to give their
opinions.
Teacher will summarize his/her Students are listening and correcting their
approach to help students grasp the mistakes.
concept.
Explain that we rise before we run.
(example of stairs)
The teacher will ask questions to guide the review and the steps to take to find the formula.
Extend / Elaborate:
Learning Experience(s) What the students are doing
Teacher will assign worksheet for Students are excited to use the new approach
homework extra practice. to find midpoint and slope.
Evaluate
Each student is looking at the questions and thinking about how they will solve them at home.