To learn the geometric concept of transformations this year, Crystal Watson’s eighth-graders drew up blueprints of apartments. As they worked, she asked them to imagine designing affordable housing ...

Materials were written for an entire year's course in geometry in which transformations were used to develop the concepts of congruence, similarity, and symmetry, as well as being a vehicle for proof.

Instead of memorization and lectures in classrooms, SESP Prof. Jen Munson, who studies learning science, envisions a ...

Geometry is an important branch of mathematics, which we use to understand the properties of 2D and 3D space such as distance ...

Imagine a classroom full of bright young students, all striving to do their best on a high school math test. They sit, heads slightly bowed, pencils ready, each one thinking about how to tackle each ...

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