Geometry
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So I am an extremely competitive board game/card game player. I love to learn a new game for the first time and completely crush all of my opponents. I play games with my family friends quite often. I joined a small group of women playing card games and I quickly let them know that when…
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About a week ago one of my students was asking for assistance on an assignment for my geometry class and I wrote down some formulas for his reference on a blank piece of paper. I wrote the distance formula, midpoint formula, and the point-slope form of an equation of a line. The student replied with…
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The next unit I am teaching to my Geometry classes filled with sophomores and a few freshman is a unit on circles. What is one thing most of us think about when we think of circles? FOOD! Pie… a pizza pie or a dessert pie… all involve pi! How fun. Anyway, I want to tell…
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During my sophomore year in my undergraduate studies I took a course called MATH 206: Fundamentals of Geometry for Teachers, and I absolutely loved it. It was a course for pre-service elementary and middle grades mathematics teachers. I was taking the course as a middle and secondary pre-service mathematics teacher. This course modelled collaboration and…
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