Geometry - post 4

Hello again! Last post of the blog assignment! This is a fun one - three dimensional shapes.

The teacher brought 3-D plastic shapes last week as an introduction to these geometrical shapes. 

Geometry - post 3

What's my angle?! This was an easy lesson for me, because it is super simple. I think geometry itself is pretty simple, though =)

I think the most important thing to remember for this lesson is the difference between the vocab. Remembering the difference between complementary vs. supplementary angles. One way I remember is supplementary angles need a supplement of an additional 90 degrees to make a total sum of 180 degrees between 2 angles. 

Another thing are the formulas. Finding the sum of the interior angles is (n-2)180. If you want to find the measure of each interior angle of a regular polygon, just divide the sum (using the formula I just gave) from the number of total angles. For example, to find the sum of all interior angles of an octagon:

(8-2)180*

(6)180* = 1080*

To find the measure of each interior angle:

1080*/8 = 135*

Geometry - post 2

I unfortunately missed this week's lesson. Unfortunate because I feel like it was the meat and potatoes of the whole chapter!! Haha anyway my peers and the handouts really helped me understand what everything was about.

Adding and subtracting angle measurements seemed really complicated, but then I realized that it's really not.

Just pretend that the degrees are hours (60 minutes), the minutes are ... well minutes (60 seconds), and the seconds are seconds. Simply, you can't have a number higher than 60 in the "minutes" or "seconds" place. Any way that I explain it is going to sound confusing, so I found this video to help me out =)

Geometry - post 1

I'm probably not that great at blogging about math subjects, but let's give it a try.

I haven't been in geometry since high school, so having a bit of a refresher was a good thing. Here is some vocab from the first week.

A line is different from a line segment, because a line can go on forever, while a line segment is just a segment of that line.
                         
       line     <----->                                   line segment       -----
                               AB                                                                                                        AB

A                           B                                                               A                           B
<------------>                                       .-------------.


A ray is a subset of a line.

ray    ----->
               AB

A                     B
.----------->

I found this video from Khan Academy just talking about the basic of geometry. I thought it made things easy to understand =)

Welcome to my world

Hi! My name is Amber Taylor. I'm 24 years old, and I am in my second year at MCC pursuing my degree in Special Education. My long term goal is to graduate from ASU with a Master's of Special Education with a focus on Autism, and then become a speech language pathologist (SLP). 

I currently work three jobs while going to school full time. I am a caregiver for a quadriplegic woman on the weekends, I work with an agency providing habilitation services for a child with autism one day a week after work/before school, and finally at a private school teaching children that have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This is my passion in life - to help those who might fall short in ways of helping themselves. My cousin was diagnosed with autism at an early age; so growing up, I had exposure that not every nine year old had. Even though technically I'm supposed to be the one teaching, every kid that I have ever worked with has taught me more than I can put into this paragraph.

I have a dog named Bella, and she means so much to me. I've gotten teased a lot because I probably treat her more like a child than a pet. She's been with me through the good times, and has just snuggled up when things got tough. In my spare time (which is a rare occasion when you combine full time work with full time school), I like to go to the shooting range, then come home and relax with a glass of wine and a movie.

 Geometry hasn't ever been a sore spot for me, but I know it's not like that for everyone. I hope this blog helps everyone feel as comfortable with geometry as I do =)