6th+grade+assignments

January 15, 2008
Explore the following links. Try to answer the question before experimenting with the java applet. [|outer angles] [|parallelogram cutting] [|polygon creation]

3 questions to be completed for tonight's study hall- A triangle has angles of x, 2x, and 3x degrees. Find all of the angles. Is this shape possible? If so, draw it. A quadrilateral has angles of x, 2x, 3x, and 4x degrees. Find all of the angles. Is this shape possible? If so, draw it. A pentagon has angles of x, 2x, 3x, 4x and 5x degrees. Find all of the angles. Is this shape possible? If so, draw it.

January 21, 2008
Construct an equilateral octagon. Use a protractor. Connect all possible diagonals. How many diagonals are there?

February 7, 2008
In the Python tutorial (the one by the guy named Josh), read the section on Decisions and do one of the exercises at the end of the section. There are three options for exercises. Choose one.

Spring Break assignment
In addition to working on your current program (which is optional), you must read the section on Functions from the "Non-programmers Tutorial" (this tutorial is linked to from the study wiki). After reading the section on defining functions (and actually typing up the examples and running them! You won't learn unless you do this!), complete the exercise at the end of the section. However, instead of including separate functions for the area of a square, rectangle, and circle, you are to include separate functions for the area of a square, a rectangle, and a triangle.

Note: all of this requires that you have python and a text editor (such as GVIM) installed. These programs are free of charge and easily downloadable and installable. Just search for them. As you can see when you go to the python web page, the version you should download is 2.5.1. They will work on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Part of this hw assignment is being able to follow instructions and figure out how to install this stuff. You may ask for help from other students or parents if you need to. That's fine. But don't come back to school and say that you couldn't do the hw because you couldn't install the programs. Finding and installing the programs is PART of the homework.

Tuesday April 8, 2008
read the following page: [|algebra history]. On the study wiki, find an appropriate place to write down 1 or more things that the reading has made you think about.(It can be either a historical fact that you have learned, or a question that the reading has caused you to ask.)

6th grade final exam topics
6th grade- Joshua and Samuel final exam topics