Why, you might ask, are there a bunch of nearly-empty Twizzler bags on my desk at school?
Well, because we are are exploring angles and quadrilaterals, and it's more fun with Twizzlers! :)
Inspired by a Marian Small "Open Question", I asked students to use two long and two short Twizzlers (the more boring among you could use straws instead) to build as many polygons as possible. They soon discovered that only a select number of quadrilaterals could be constructed with these restrictions!
Inspired by a Marian Small "Open Question", I asked students to use two long and two short Twizzlers (the more boring among you could use straws instead) to build as many polygons as possible. They soon discovered that only a select number of quadrilaterals could be constructed with these restrictions!
After building their quadrilaterals, students were asked to record and describe their work using Thinglink, Piccolage or another visual app. They needed to include two of their polygons, correctly labeled add labels correctly identifying five different types of angles.
This worked pretty well for all but one student, who ate the evidence before recording his work.
Here and below are some samples of a few group's Thinglinks:
This worked pretty well for all but one student, who ate the evidence before recording his work.
Here and below are some samples of a few group's Thinglinks:
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