Summary and Synthesis

Since my last blog, I have remebered and discovered new methods in finding area of shapes and what the definition of shapes are. The definition of a polygon is one of the first things that I learned by doing looking at different shapes and figuring out if they were polygons are not. I also learned different methods in figuring out the area of any polygon. One formula I learned was Pick's theorem which as a pattern toit when drawing shapes on a geoboard. There were also other qualifications for quadileterals and rectangles that I had to remember since grade school. Many of my textbooks had defined a rectangle but they defined it in a way that it was so broad and it could be another shapes definition. I think it is important to define shapes well enough so students understand exactly the characteristics of that shape and what makes that shape unique compared to the other shapes.