Part I: Constructions Summary

Choose at least one construction that you are the most proud of or the one you have
grown the most in to write in your portfolio. You must use artifacts (worksheet, test,
journal prompts) from this unit to be used as evidence.
Learning Statement
Tell the story of how you made sense of and used at least one of the following constructions:
1. Perpendicular Bisector
2. Copying an Angle
3. Creating Parallel Lines
4. Triangle Constructions
Look at pgs 2 and 3 to see an example of what this will look like.

Qualities of a Mathematician
Throughout your story, please talk about one of the Qualities youve grown in (refer back to
your journal prompts):
Hypothesizing/Experimenting
Explaining/Justifying
Collaborating

Part II: The Purpose of Constructions

Please create a separate google document and answer the prompt in the box below. Please be
specific and elaborate when answering the questions.
Putting it all together
Imagine a visitor from another school came up to you and saw you working on constructions
and asked you the following questions:
What does it mean to do constructions?
Whats the point of even doing constructions? You already know what these
shapes are. Why bother creating them from scratch?
Whats the point of learning how to use a compass? Its unlikely youll use
them in the future.
How would you respond?

When I was first starting to learn about

Perpendicular Bisectors I didnt know what it
was. I thought it was just making a line. It
didnt matter where it was, as long as it was a
line on the paper.
The first step for me when starting to draw a
Perpendicular Bisector was to draw a line,
which was straightforward. Mr. I told us to
draw a line any measurement we wanted it to
be. I drew it a not so small, but not so big
either so it was equal on both sides.
Afterwards, I quickly drew two circles on
either side and in the middle I noticed there
were two points on which both circles
intersected on. Those two points I drew a
vertical line connecting both points together
and realized I had made a Perpendicular
Bisector and a Right Angle, both using a
compass and a construction that Mr. I had
taught us afterwards.
When I first started using this construction, I
noticed that I could make different shapes
using this construction. The first shape Mr. I
made us work on was a Triangle and a
Square because both of these were easy to
start on.
When I first made the triangle, I made my
base line, which was the line I was going to
measure to be able to create my
perpendicular line right in the middle. I then
measured this line and created the circle a
little past the middle. I did the same on the
other side and noticed where they both
intersected. Where they intersected, on the
top point, I made a line that connected from
the first edge of the line segment to the point
that connected both circles. I did the same on
the other side and got a triangle with equal
sides. The same can be done with a square,
rectangle, rhombus and kite. It just needs to
be done differently. The construction is the
same, just the steps are done differently.