{"id":5469,"date":"2012-12-05T14:17:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T19:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/?p=5469"},"modified":"2012-12-05T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T19:17:02","slug":"geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/2012\/12\/05\/geometry\/","title":{"rendered":"Geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we started a new unit of study in Geometry.\u00a0 On Monday, we gave the problem, “Mrs. Clark created a shape that had more than 4 sides.\u00a0 What shape did she create?”\u00a0 This lead to a lot of exploration about shapes.\u00a0 We came up with hexagons, octagons, and even a few different 3D shapes.\u00a0 The kids came up with a list and we started naming the shapes.\u00a0 At the end of yesterday’s Math Workshop a few friends got into a discussion about octagons.\u00a0 Ruth said all octagons look like stop signs & Aasha said they just had to have 8 sides.<\/p>\n

Today we explored that question.\u00a0 Could an octagon look like anything with 8 sides or was it a set shape?\u00a0 We found out together that all octagons had to have 8, CONGRUENT sides.\u00a0 I gave the kids the challenge today.\u00a0 Could they figure it out; what is an octagon?<\/p>\n

I have to say that the class was on a mission. (They were on a mission to prove the theory wrong :).\u00a0 Selam and Ruth discovered that it might be possible.\u00a0 Check out the picture below of one of their creations.<\/p>\n

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They shared it with the class and were challenged on the sides.\u00a0 Were the sides really congruent?!\u00a0 After more discussion we decided as a class that we STILL didn’t have the answer.\u00a0 We will be working on this problem tomorrow as a class to try to see if we can find out what a true octagon looks like. \u00a0 Even though we did not find an answer in one day I have to say that I am proud of the kid’s reasoning abilities and determination to figure it out. \u00a0 Check back tomorrow for the update!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we started a new unit of study in Geometry.\u00a0 On Monday, we gave the problem, “Mrs. Clark created a shape that had more than 4 sides.\u00a0 What shape did she create?”\u00a0 This lead to a lot of exploration about shapes.\u00a0 We came up with hexagons, octagons, and even a few different 3D shapes.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":619,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110064,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clark","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/619"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5471,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5469\/revisions\/5471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/school60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}