Check out GeoGebra OER community. There will be a US conference this year,
and the online resources and groups are good, too.
A lot of my students appreciate geometry through the following lenses:
- Origami
- Computer graphics, especially programming cool visuals for games
- Escher, Dali, and
Another thing to consider is that there is a lot of different math:
algebra and geometry are quite different and someone being good at one
might not be good at the other. As a former high school math teacher
and one who saw his kids recently go through high school, I believe that
many
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:17:07PM -0700, kirby urner wrote:
Happy camping!
Wow thanks for all the great ideas. I feel better now.
Have fun. That is my new key.
cs
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:39:08PM -0400, Jeremy Gray wrote:
well, there's future usefulness and practicality to motivate your
homeschoolers. and there's also in-the-moment fun, beauty, and joy of doing
it.
I'm glad you said that. I was simultaneously coming to same conclusion. Still
it is
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:40 PM, ch...@seberino.org wrote:
I'm teaching high school math to homeschoolers and I'm looking for how to make
geometry year meaningful.
Most geometry taught in high school is flat, planar.
This is a problem in an age of HDTVs, LCDs.
If you wanna blow some time on
Beautiful! Thank you for making this statement. Lots of people making
decisions in education need to hear this.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Jason Axelson bostonvaul...@gmail.comwrote:
As a somewhat recent high-school graduate (2005) I must say that I don't
think that all the countless
