A long time ago, little Tommy was sitting in his classroom, and the teacher asked, "Tommy, can you use the word "geometry" in a sentence?". Tommy said, "Sure! One night an acorn fell asleep, and the next day it wake up and said,'Gee I'm a tree!' ".
All kidding aside, one of the simplest, and yet deepest, ways to explore your knowledge of geometry is to play a game called Guess My Rule. It's simple. You put three or four polygons that follow a certain rule inside a circle and a couple that do not follow the rule outside of the circle. Then, you have someone "Guess My Rule".
So, what do think my rule is? Please don't be cute and say "polygons with less than five sides". While, the shapes inside the circle do have less than five sides (the ones on the outside do as well), my rule is a bit more complex :-}
Oh, a hint you wish? Well, I always investigate polygons by looking at their sides and angles!
Have fun!
14 comments:
wow! This does require some thinking. At first thought was no quadrilaterals, but the chevron is in there. I'm going to take a risk and guess that your rule is that your polygons have at least two acute angles.
Mrs. Wallace,
That's a great guess. Your rule fits, but it's not my rule ;-}
Sigh! I see I need to go a little futher out, but not so far-out... :-)
Let's see if I get the soup this time....
The polygons in the circle have at least 2 acute angles AND no parallel lines, unlike the polygons on the outside of the circle.
That math teacher sure did a good job tutoring you. And you said you weren't good in math... ;-)
The math teacher has brilliant students!
hey mr.raurk this is caity from mrs.swidorsky homeroom i was wondering if you could put a couple of math ?s on this site so i could have a little practice if you cant i understand but math rules SGR ssssoooo does this mean i get a back of smarties just kidding no really
Yes, you get Smarties Caity! Here's a problem if one of the angles of a right triangle maeasuers 32 degrees, what size are the other two angles?
Mr. R.
one would be 90 degrees ans the other one would be 58 degrees and 58 plus 90 plus 32 = 180 degrees is that right because if ity isnt i am lke reallly kind of stupid when it cums to that question sorry it took me so log to reply HOMEWORK tell me about it
When I did guess my rull with Kaitlin S. it took forever because it was the best rule EVER!!!!! :) That was one of my FAVES so far u do like the most fun activties (Dont tell Mrs.Swidorsky and Mrs.Szerba) -Sarah C. (Mrs. Swidorsky Homeroom)
To Caity,
Booooyaaaahhhhh! SGR!
Mr. R.
Sarah, your secret is safe!
yes i got it right that is so cool i have nevr realy bin (been) that good in math but you make it fun to learn math my mom is really impressed that i am always looking for middle school math and i have a question for you to answer m<b=37degrees find the measures of the complement and supplement of the angle if it is a real math equation answer it and if it is not then tell me and i will give you another hard one
dear mr.ruark,
your jokes are so funny!
imean gee i fell out of a tree!
but i have a mystry to solve !
here is my msytry:wich came first the chicken or the egg!?
~victoria.r.
p.s.when are you going to do that problem in my edc book?
p.s.s.i am in mrs.szerbas class.
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