Group Work On Angles

Hello, 4A. It is I, Mr Fawaz.

To all the dear parents, I'm a fresh face at Endeavour Primary - but for only 10 weeks. It's been 3, which means I have 7 weeks left with 4A. I teach them Math on Wednesdays and Fridays (on other days I teach mostly PE and some English, PE is my core subject) under the mentorship and guidance of Mrs Ow Yong. This is my last practicum after which I will graduate from NIE and become a full-fledged Beginning Teacher come August.

(Some of you might be wondering why my name looks so strange here on Blogger; the explanation will be somewhere in the post. You have to read the whole post to find out... *evil grin*)

1.  Q&A

First up, well done to everyone for your participation and effort. Here are the questions once more followed by all your answers, arranged numerically by group.

Questions:

1. How many ways can we label an angle? Give an example for each (draw it out).

2. What are some special angle names you know?

3. How many degrees are there in a complete turn?

4. What do we use to measure angles?

5. Give at least 3 examples of how we use angles in our daily lives.

6. Give 5 examples of angles in our classroom.

Group 1:

Group 2:

Group 3:

Group 4:

Group 5:

Group 6:

Group 7:

Group 8:

Group 9:

Here are some of my answers, where you might have been unsure:

1. Two ways - the first way is to use the upper-case name of 3 points that make up an angle. The second way is to give each angle a unique one-letter name in lower case. This is something we have gone through many times already and most of you understand it now.

2. Right angle, obtuse angle, acute angle, straight angle (yes, there is such a thing and some of you got it).

3. 360 degrees in a complete turn.

4. A protractor. Try saying it out slowly: PRO-TRAC-TOR.

5. In football or basketball, we have to determine the angle at which we kick or shoot the ball so it will hit our target. When driving, we look at the angle we need to turn to gauge how slow we need to go to take the turn safely. When using our laptops or mobile devices sometimes, we tilt the screen to find an angle where the light from the screen produces the least glare, or the display appears the clearest (least reflections, perhaps).

6. Here, look at these photos:

MANY angles from this window

Anglefish. Hahaha. Get it, get it...

Tri-angles

Fireman Access Point

The cover of this packet of markers makes an angle.

2. Points to Highlight

I want you to take note of these few pearls of wisdom that I gathered from your group work:

1. Be constructive in your comments, say things that help people improve. E.g. You spelt this wrong, it should be 'protractor'.

2. Use the sandwich method when pointing out something that needs improvement: 

SAY SOMETHING NICE, SAY WHAT NEEDS IMPROVEMENT, REPEAT THE NICE THING.

E.g. Your poster is very nicely decorated, but you missed out a few key points. Still, I admire the effort you put into decorating your poster.

3. Solve problems creatively whilst respecting others and boundaries: some of you decided to share post-its with your groupmates, that was a brilliant move. Some others decided to write directly on another group's poster; that is not very nice and you can only do such a thing if they first give you permission.

3. Keep Reading

My name is Muhammad Fawaz bin Abdul Fazil. 'Bin' simply means 'son of', and it is from the Arabic word 'Ibn'. It is common for Arabs to address people as 'son of *insert father's name*' and my father's name is more accurately transliterated from Arabic as 'Abd al-Faadhil' hence my name appearing on my user profile as 'Ibn Abd al-Faadhil'. I like it that way, I guess that's because I'm cool like that. But you already knew that.

4. For Your Reference

Here are some of the things we have covered in class:

video: angles song ( http://bit.ly/1kFKP9e )

video: Math Antics (angles) ( http://bit.ly/1LcXHBx )  

Group Work Roles:

Scribe: that’s right, you write. It’s the right thing to do
Manager: make sure everyone take turns to speak, and everyone participates and there is peace and harmony ☺
Volume-guard: before your group gets too noisy you intervene likka boss (but be nice)
Timekeeper: it’s not great to be late, you watch the clock
For Groups with 5 – Presenter: you are a gift at the end of the lesson
 

That's all folks, you'll hear from me soon.

Enjoy what's left of your holidays, drink plenty of water and get enough rest every night.

Mr Fawaz