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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
The Coordinate Plane, Functions and Geometer's Sketchpad
The 6th grade Math students used the Geometer's Sketchpad software to construct the four quadrants of the coordinate plane, in which they plotted several points. In a second document, the students plotted two linear functions, and then placed points on those functions. Next, the students moved the points up and down the lines and checked to see how the X and the Y coordinates of the points changed in relation to each other. From these observations, the students drew conclusions about the functions.
