Teachers' Notes Cynthia Lanius Fractals Teachers' Notes These lessons, written to comply with the NCTM Standards, use fractal geometry to introduce students to modern mathematical research and to reinforce the arithmetic and geometry skills that they study in school. The lessons are designed for students to work independently or with guidance from the teacher. None other than a computer with Internet access and graphics capabilities, although triangle grid paper and posterboard is helpful.
Every lesson has a version without links or navigational bar which can be printed for classroom use.
Questions are included with each section. A mini research project could be assigned after completion of the lesson. Students would complete an on-line portfolio that includes examples of other fractals, a paper describing what they have learned, a biography of a mathematician who does research on fractals, etc. Be sure to have them include a bibliography of the urls they used. A really fine lesson on chaos and fractals is Robert Devaney's Chaos in the Classroom.