October Mathematics Coaches Professional Development

October Mathematics Coaches Professional Development

Time / Activity / Materials
8:30 am – 9:00 am / Introduction to Building Academic Vocabulary / Chart tablet
Markers
Copies of pages w-2 through w-8 from Building Academic Vocabulary
9:00 am – 9:30 am / Reviewing Basic Terms / Document camera
Patty paper
Pencil
Straight edge
9:30 am – 9:45 am / Defining a Triangle / Document Camera
Patty paper
Pencil
Straight edge
Spaghetti
Glue
9:45 am – 10:15 am / Defining and measuring angles / Document Camera
Patty paper
Pencil
Straight edge
10:15 am -10:30 am / Break
10:30 am – 10:45 am / Experiment: Can you make a triangle? / Document Camera
Spaghetti
10:45 am – 11:15 am / Simulation: Can you make a triangle? / Document Camera
Graphing calculator with ProbSim app
11:15 am - 11:30 am / Sum of the measures of the interior angles of a triangle / Document Camera
Patty paper
Pencil
Straight edge
Scissors
11:30 am - 12:30 pm / Lunch
12:30 pm - 12:45 pm / Making three random angles that have a sum of 180 degrees / Document Camera
Patty paper
Pencil
Straight edge
Scissors
12:45 pm – 1:00 pm / Making pairs of triangles with 3 given angles / Document Camera
White paper
Pencil
Straight edge
Scissors
1:00 pm -1:30 pm / Nesting pairs of triangles, comparing corresponding angles and corresponding sides / Document Camera
Ruler
Calculator
1:30 pm – 1:45 pm / Defining similarity / Document Camera
1:45 pm – 2:00 pm / Break
Time / Activity / Materials
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm / Making pairs of triangles with 3 given sides / Document Camera
Spaghetti
White Paper
Pencil
Straight edge
Scissors
2:15 pm – 2:30 pm / Nesting pairs of triangles, comparing corresponding angles and corresponding sides / Document Camera
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm / Working with the Academic Vocabulary list / Chart Paper and Markers
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm / Analogies / Chart Paper and Markers