fishing for points
ldewees
Posted 10/3/2006 1:01 PM (#1108)
Subject: fishing for points
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Location: Henry Clay		Remember the fishing for points activity? How about using it in Alg 1 if you are at plotting points. I know when I taught Alg in the past, I would use cookie cutters so the kids could trace a figure and then find the points. For Halloween you could easily get cookie cutters of ghosts, pumpkins, a witch's hat for your specially selected kids, etc. In fact, I have a box of 100 cookie cutters so if they don't even want to do Halloween objects, they can use just about anything!
It would also be a great reason to bake for the kids!
rgoin
Posted 10/3/2006 1:14 PM (#1110 - in reply to #1108)
Subject: RE: fishing for points


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Location: Henry Clay		I have done the cookie cutter activity too. One year I had them plot the points in the calculator to graph. They loved it!
bperry
Posted 10/3/2006 3:28 PM (#1116 - in reply to #1108)
Subject: RE: fishing for points


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Location: Henry Clay		I have a pumpkin full of cookie cutters.
ldewees
Posted 10/4/2006 7:58 AM (#1123 - in reply to #1108)
Subject: RE: fishing for points
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Location: Henry Clay		Another idea - I used to tear off the bottom half of the paper with their points that they wrote down. Then i passed them around the room and gave the kids more graph paper and they graphed their classmate's points to see if they could come up with the original picture. It's a quick and easy way to check....just make sure they don't yell out what they are graphing so everybody already knows when they get a paper.
smosier
Posted 10/4/2006 8:15 AM (#1124 - in reply to #1108)
Subject: RE: fishing for points
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Location: Henry Clay		I have a beginner activity that does graph a pumpkin, and then day 2 graphs 'tumbling blocks quilt pattern' sort of a 3D pic that they can use to find lines parallel, equations, slopes, x & y intercepts, etc!
rgoin
Posted 10/5/2006 11:26 AM (#1128 - in reply to #1108)
Subject: RE: fishing for points


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Location: Henry Clay		Bryson you're so festive