Homework for April 3

We had a solid morning. We had a number of novel studies shared. We also read over the Math Homework.

Student activity 2 is to be completed in students' notebook. Bring Wednesday.
I have typed in questions 1, 3 and 4 for the math assignment.
If you have forgotten it at school, please see below. Note: I am unable to bring in drawings. I will try to upload the document as a pdf file later tonight. I am sending it as an attachment to the class tel conference.

We also watched the film "Mountain" that showed us many examples of the theme of geographic inquiry "Interaction."

The Superdupers are currently leading with 70 points.


Homework for tonight:

Math - Gulliver's travels Student Activity #2 (bring tomorrow)
L.A. - LP 14 & 15 due Wednesday


History/Geography - we examined photo album collections from many regions in the world (10 difference area). In pairs we identified pictures representing each of the five areas of interaction and wrote down others' example on a worksheet. This activity will be completed tomorrow and will help us in putting together our brochure (which will be assigned next week).



Many students are unfamiliar with the novel Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Here is a link to the original e-book.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/829
(Again note this is the original, with some challenging vocabulary.)

We will be watching the film sometime soon. A book contains a lot more detail.

Math homework:
Excerpt from Activity 2 (note all students received copies and were checked as having a copy today).

Gulliver was apparently unaware of the reasons why the mathematicians constructed their buildings (and their lots) in unsymmetrical shapes. Legend tells how the king, in his attempt to raise more revenue from his people, levied a special tax on any lot that contained more than two right angles. Two mathematicians, Alpha and Beta, with adjoining rectangular lots, reshaped their lots as shown to avoid this special tax.



1 a) The diagram shows two trapezoids. Write a sentence to define a trapezoid. Check your definition with a dictionary.



b) How many right angles has each trapezoid shown here? Do all trapezoids have the same number of right angles? Explain.
c) Did Alpha and Beta have to pay the special tax on their new lots? Explain.

2. Question 2 requires the handout in order to complete accurately.

3. a) Draw two rectangles of length 9 cm and width 6 cm on centimetre paper. (your notebook). Divide one of the rectangles into two rectangles A and B
with dimensions of 5 cm x 6 cm (A)
and 4 cm x 6 cm (B)

b) Use what you learned to divide the other rectangle into trapezoids.
Call them C and D.
Make the area of C the same as the area of A (in the first part of the question).

Explain how you did this.
How many ways do you think this can be done?


4 a) Draw a 12.5 cm x 6.5 cm rectangle on a sheet of paper.
Divide your rectangle into two other rectangles X and Y.
Record their areas. Area of X = ________
Area of Y = ________
Cut out your rectangle and divide it into two trapezoids so that one has the same area as X. The other one should have the same area as Y.

b) Measure the dimensions of each trapezoid and calculate its area as in 2. b)
Record the areas of the trapezoids and verify (make sure you’re correct with proof) that they are equal to the area of X and Y.