Day 5

Connecting with dots in Day 5

We often provide children with Dot to Dot activities such as connecting the dots from 1 to 10 or 1 to 20. Upon completing the all the dots, the children will be amazed to what picture it turn to be. What I’m experiencing today with connecting the dots was a different concept at all. Unlike the other activities for the pass days, I am surprised that I was able to do the activity without any difficulty. This is truly an accomplishment for me.

The first activity that we had was to connect 4 dots to create polygons. I also understand the fact that polygons always have straight lines. From the activities, we also explore the many ways to find the area of the polygons such as:

·         Bisecting

·         Cut and paste

·         Look for half of the rectangle

·         Subtracting

One interesting equation that I learned today to find the area of a polygon

                      Area of polygon ( x + 1)

                        Let x = no of dots  inside

                         A = area of polygon

                        Area = x + y/2

                        y = number of dots on the side