I use geometric drawing across the curriculum in several projects. Below is an in-progress shot of an 8th-grader’s design for a stained glass window, an assignment from my medieval history unit that incorporates symbolism along with geometric design. In world
My three-year-old is forever teaching me about determination (or “stubbornness,” depending on the particulars). This week, it was the kite he got in his Easter basket. Every day, he’s been looking out the window and declaring that it’s really windy
The hand of the Lord came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me all around them;
The Promise, the first major motion picture to shed light on the Armenian Genocide, premiered this past weekend. Here’s why you need to see it. The Worst Crime You’ve Never Heard Of If you’re not Armenian, statistically, chances are good
The construction for a regular hexagon is a favorite of my students every year and the one most of them choose as a basis for their geometric design project. We are simply going to begin with a line and use
This simple, elegant construction yields a square simply by using the steps to bisect a segment. Begin by using your compass to draw a circle, making sure to mark its center. With your straight edge, draw the diameter of the
Today we’ll be bisecting an angle, i.e. cutting an angle in half without using a protractor to measure. Â Begin with any angle and draw an arc from the vertex (V) such that your arc crosses both rays of the angle.
Today we’ll be doing a very simple construction — bisecting a segment. Â In other words, we will be cutting a line segment in half. Â Begin by drawing matching circles from your two endpoints (A and B). Â The radius of the
Here’s a little activity to wrap up our geometry study for the week. Â Have your students consider the following drawing and try to identify as many polygons as they can. Â If they need a little guidance, here are some possibilities…
We can employ the two skills we’ve been working on this week — constructing congruent segments and constructing congruent angles — to create a copy of any polygon. Use a straight edge to draw any polygon. Â Here’s an irregular hexagon