Your Name Here - Midpoints

Just like the "Thankful" words and the "Character" words activities, I have a Name-Activity where students calculate midpoints.



Actually, I think for the College Algebra class, they calculate distance, but it makes no difference.


When I do the Name, Character, and Thankful activities, one of them is for slope, one is for distance, and one is for midpoint.  I usually do the name first, and I do them in the order of Lesson number.
That's all with my Geometry students.
With the College Algebra students, I 'have' to cover the distance formula.  It's probably something I should just skip, but I don't like skipping things, so we do this instead.





With the Thankful and Character activities, I usually don't hang up each word.  I try to not get too many repeats and I only pick the ones that are neat, colored, and look good.

With the Names activity,  I hang every single one up.


I keep the same requirements for each of these assignments:


*Every letter must have only straight line segments.  No curves!
*Every segment must have a slope that is not zero or undefined.  (No horizontal or vertical lines.)
*Every word must be drawn in something other than pencil.


Sometimes, this may be a challenge.  

That is a "U."

Some students decide they don't like the way the name looks, so they redo several letters just to improve one.


**Generally, this activity is easier to do with all-capital letters.
**Sometimes letters can be a little tricky to make w/o vertical or horizontal lines.  These can be done by placing the letters at an angle and/or drawing them 'artistically.'



For these projects, the kids have to show work.  
That work must include calculations with the ordered pairs.  (That is the entire point of this project.)  
It has to be organized!


The name has to be at least 4 letters long.