My major goal in this project was to dispel that notion. Approximately 500 students are grouped into heterogeneous, mostly self-contained classrooms.
Some teachers exchange students for reading and mathematics.
Our school receives Title I funds, and some of our students participate in the free lunch program. My own fourth grade class of 32 students reflects the diversity of the general school population. In Lopez' project, these students were given the opportunity to actively study and investigate several important geometric concepts. The students' findings then are recorded and made permanent by means of photographs. I also wanted to give the impression that if Euclid were alive today, he'd be out there taking pictures.