Feel free to work at the suggested pace below or at your own pace provided you complete all assignments by 11:59 PM Sunday. Monday: Desmos Exploring the Graphs of Polar Equations - Go to student.desmos.com and type the class code 1st hour 87N6JP , 2nd hour AE85B6 Tuesday: Visit my website/blog for a video and to take notes on Graphing Polar Equations. Do the matching worksheet. [...]
Here are the geometry assignments for the week of April 27 – May 1, 2020. Monday: Try the Circles Exploration. If you get stuck, watch the video at https://youtu.be/VWOX7xoKBNU. And take notes on the Circles Exploration sheet. Tuesday: Do the Circles in a Coordinate Plane worksheet. Submit answers on this quizizz or go to joinmyquiz.com and type code 552413 and email your work to me. Wednesday: Watch the video at https://expl.ai/BHRHLAR and do the Area [...]
Cindy Johnson’s Conic Cards are the inspiration behind Polar Cards. How she took the time to create 8 decks of conic cards is beyond me, but my students loved and learned from them. In my classroom, my students first perform a Polar Graphs Investigation. This helps them explore the graphs of the polar equations they [...]
I remember being frightened by the polar coordinate system and graphing equations using it when I was in my students' seats many years ago. With graphing calculators, this doesn't have to be intimidating. I started the unit with an introduction to the polar coordinate system and reminded my students about how intimately familiar they are [...]
It's conic section time in Pre-Calculus. Learning from last year, I added a section on circles. I polled my students prior to spring break and they didn't recall the equation of a circle in standard form. To dust off the rust and get into completing the square mode, I created some Vizual Notes and a [...]
We have spent some time learning how to graph circles, limacons, rose curves, and lemniscates on the polar coordinate plane. The material you see below is borrowed heavily from Yosh's Graphing Polar Equations part 1, part 2, and part 3. I have included a link to the Word document instead of a pdf of the [...]
When starting a new unit on circles, I'm cognizant of how important learning the vocabulary is. Most geometry students are only familiar with the center, radius and diameter of a circle. Following a trigonometry unit, the word tangent takes on a new meaning. The following notes sheets and study guides should help address this. Lines & Segments that [...]
