Learning Objectives: Use real objects measures to locate the midpoint of a segment.

 

 

Duration: 15 min

 

 

 

Material:

• Rulers
• Meters
• Pencil
• Paper

 

 

Activity Description:

 

 

• Provide each student with one measuring tool(ruler, meter…), paper and pencil. Take your students outside the classroom to measure different objects such as: desks, length and width of a door, length of bunch……
• Have a student record the answer on the paper.
• Ask them to mark half of the measurement they took by calculating it on the paper and by coloring the middle part on the objects measured.
• Have students connect the point in the middle to the half of the measure written on board.
• Conclude that the middle point is alse called midpoint and it divides the segment into halves => 2 equal parts.

Finally, sketch the segment and midpoint on the board as well as the notebooks of students.