The topics were designed to make geometry lessons more productive, exciting, fun and realistic to all students. The object of this FTI is to review a topic taught the day before. We wanted to review in a more creative and interesting manner. Students were in pairs. They were given ten minutes to write down in paragraph form what they had learned the previous day.
Some students read their paragraphs.
Then they had 15 minutes to put the paragraph into poetry form. These were also read. The topic was the Pythagorean Theorem, but the students also crossed disciplines and could show creativity. Each student took the poem and had one week to create a greeting card, with the poem as the message. Senior high geometry class, but can be done at any level.