Finally, I hope

This image is of Marcus's avatar standing in front of the tree. The size of the avatar in relation to the tree. The size of the tree is easily manipulated as a result you can make it both bigger and smaller than Marcus's avatar.

In this image i create a tree and also convince Marcus to appear in the snapshot. This allows me to see the size of Marcus's avatar in comparison of the tree i created. Since i can easily manipulate the size of the tree i can show how one particular size relates to another. Since these sizes are both in decimals and percentages, it gives me an opportunity to help the students understand percentages.

This image is a way of showing proportions. I decided to create a tree to demonstrate proportionality. I use my co-worker's avatar to show how two things next to each other differ in size and scope.

Yet a bigger box. This is made by just increasing the decimals corresponding to bigger objects. Clearly it is easy to see how a student working with this program will have a better appreciation of the shapes and the numbers that create them

This is yet another dimension of the same object. By turning a solid into a box, is another way to enhance the stdudents' understanding of a solid.

This is a way of showing how the object comes together. A solid with some of its sides cut out. This can be used to show how many sides a solid cube has, because manipulating the numbers let you easily add or remove different sides of the object. What is important is that you have the ability to construct and deconstruct any geometric shape this way.

This image is created by right clicking on an empty space pricesely where the image is right now. You ge a number of options, and you select CREATE. This will generate a menu of almost all the major geometric shapes. Here i chose a cube. I can change this shape any way i want, by clicking on OBJECT. The drop down menu will enable you to do whatever you wnat with the object. This is where the math comes in. First all the dimensions you can choose are in decimals, and they are for length, breadth, hieght, thickness, and even hollow.

This is a way to demonstrate the different sizes of the cube. By taking away some of the sides, we can show the construction of a solid.

This image shows yet another dimesion of the same object. This object is made by adding the length and hieght of the object. The coordinates control the size of the object. The larger the number of the bigger the object. This practice is a very neat way to show how to add and subtract decimals.

I believe the visual aspect of the the practice will be invaluable to the student understanding, becuase they can see how numbers can translate into size.


ThisThis image is created by right clicking on an empty space pricesely where the image is right now. There will be a number of options, and you select CREATE. This will generate a menu of almost all the major geometric shapes. Here i chose a cube. I can change this shape any way i want, by clicking on OBJECT. The drop down menu will enable you to do whatever you wnat with the object. This is where the math comes in. First all the dimensions you can choose are in decimals, and they are for length, breadth, hieght, thickness, and even hollow. This will enable students to to see decimals at work.

I tried uploading my lesson plan yesterday, but i could not. Dr Chang suggested that i should upload the images one at a time. So that is what i will try to accomplish today. The images will demonstrate not only how to build objects on second life, but hopefully they will show just about everything on second life can be a valuable math teaching resource.