Victoria Rivas at Hamden High School

Marking Period 1 Project Results
updated November 17, 2009
I was incredibly impressed with the results of the Marking Period 1 project. It was more rigorous than it has been in other years. Students had to research stained glass windows, then design...
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Marking Period 1 Project
updated October 3, 2009
Everyone was introduced to the Marking Period 1 project on Friday. I look forward to seeing the results. Every year I am astounded and impressed by the creativity of my students. The project...
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Welcome to the 2009-2010 School Year!
updated August 16, 2009
Welcome to Math! I can see already that many of you are either ready to barf with disgust, or shivering with fear. I hope that we can change a bit of that this year. We will do math, and...
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Project Cartesian Cartoon
updated August 16, 2009
One of the options for the 3rd Marking Period Project was to create a Cartesian Cartoon. That is, to give a list of coordinates that will produce a picture when plotted on graph paper and the...
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New Pictures from Marking Period 1 Projects
updated August 16, 2009
Pictures of the cartoons, stained glass and graphs are finally posted. Pictures of the biography posters just didn't turn out at all. But of course you can always come by the room and see them. ...
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Marking Period 1 Project 2008
updated August 16, 2009
I am always impressed by the quality of the work students do on their marking period projects. This was no exception. On Friday, the students who chose to research a mathematician for their...
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Ms. Rivas features at Silas Bronson Library in Waterbury
updated August 16, 2009
You can read the entire article at the article here: Library issues poetic license. Here is the short bio it gave for...
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Marking Period 3 Projects
updated August 16, 2009
I have had a lot of fun reading the poems and cartoons submitted for this marking period's project. I never fail to be amazed at my students' creativity and ingenuity. I am in the process of...
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Marking Period 2 Projects
updated August 16, 2009
I am amazed at the creativity of my students given our assignment for the marking period 2 project. The drawings of bridges, the creativity even when figuring nutritional values of cereals, was...
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Cartoon Blowup Redux
updated August 16, 2009
The ratio of similitude is the ratio of sizes between similar images. The students took the small cartoon and blew them up to 9 times the size. Each 1/2" square on the original picture became a 1...
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Student of the Month
updated August 16, 2009
This is my second year at Hamden High and the first time I have found a student who I felt compelled to nominate for Student of the Month. Here is what I said at the presentation, "When Chelsie...
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Stained Glass Angles
updated August 16, 2009
As part of our first marking period project, some Geometry students chose to create stained glass window designs, and describe the angles There's a name written in this on if you can find it! If...
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If You Know How to Do It!
updated August 16, 2009
I have always told my students that Math is easy if you know how to do it, that anything is easy if you know how to do it. Today I proved that with a practical example. As a 20 year martial arts...
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Cartoon Blowup!
updated August 16, 2009
We are studying Ratios, Rates and Proportions in Algebra 1 17. As part of our proportions lesson, the students took small pictures of cartoon characters, gridded them off, then created larger...
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Peace Cranes and other Origami
updated August 16, 2009
On the Thursday before Christmas vacation we made origami figures, including Christmas Trees, Wreaths, Bows and Cranes. With some of the classes, we talked about the myth that if you fold 1000...
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