For the second quarter benchmark in Pre-Calculus, students tied together concepts involving transformations and trigonometric functions, and applied those principles in order to model real world data. Students collected data and generated sinusoidal functions modeling the average temperature and sunset times for one major US city. As a final product, students generated a detailed process guide explaining the process that they engaged in while generating their model functions. Their guide had to include graphical representations of their functions as well as their data points, and was meant to clearly explain their problem solving process.

Geometry Benchmark Overview

For the Geometry Benchmark, students were divided into groups of three or four people and each group was assigned a topic related to geometry that had to be presented in front of class. Within the presentation, each group had to include the shapes of geometry that were used in the topic they received, the materials, the methods, why geometry is used in that topic, and the reasoning behind it all. On the day of presentation, each group explained their topic to the class as if they were teachers. For individual work, each member of the group was responsible for submitting a journal explaining how the group was working and how we were working and a pamphlet that included all the information we found.

Julia Boyer

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Geometry Benchmark-Q1

            For geometry our benchmark was to research how a subject that we were given fits into geometry. In a group we had to make a lesson like a slideshow or an activity to teach the class and make a pamphlet about the basic information.

            My group got engineering and Architecture in Geometry, we made a slideshow and we each individually made pamphlets.

For our geometry benchmark, my class was split into groups of two or three. We had to make a class presentation. In this project a partner and me had to create a -10minute lesson plan on a math topic given to us. We also had to create a math pamphlet on the topic. The topic that I had was Geometry in sports.

My group was Rashaun Williams, and myself. Our topic was sports and how they relate to Geometry. The sports we were given to teach about were baseball, track & field, and snowboarding. We decided for each of us to talk about one and we both talked about the last one. We had some media in our lesson such as a video on track & field and on snowboarding.

For our geometry benchmark, my class was split into groups of two or three. We had to make a class presentation. Our teacher would assign us a topic, and we would make a slide show and teach the class like a mini lesson. This slide included a class activity which we would have the class do. For our individual grade, we had to do a pamphlet each. My group’s topic was religious art. But our teacher suggested for us to look up info on the geometry found in Islamic art since Islamic art has very complicated patterns.