This workshop will focus on student reasoning in the teaching and learning of geometry. The workshop activities will be adapted from the Connected Geometry curriculum. This curriculum was developed at Educational Development Center, Inc. through funding by the National Science Foundation. Connected Geometry empowers geometry students to become comfortable with hard problems. As students learn the mathematical content of geometry they are encouraged to use and value mathematical habits of the mind.
Students become experimenters, pattern seekers, describers, inventors, and visualizers.
Students become actively engaged in conjecturing, verifying, and making sense of geometry. Participants will be given classroom activities and pedagogical ideas that can be used with any geometry curriculum. Participants will be engaged in hands on activities done with and without technology. Geometer s Sketchpad will be used, but no prior experience is necessary. She was one of the primary authors of the Connected Geometry materials.