T103 Documents and Links for Fall 2008

For links that begin with GSP, Geometer's Sketchpad is needed -- this software is available on the PCs on campus.

General information

Course information sheet

Schedule-part I

Schedule-part 2

Schedule-part 3

Schedule-part 4

Textbook website

Guidelines for doing group work

Guidelines for presenting written work

Find definitions at Mathwords

A bibliography of geometry

What is mathematical proficiency?

Miscellaneous links

Mathematics in daily life:
Annenberg/CPB Exhibits

Geometry in sculpture
George Hart's website

Platonic Realms - Escher

Something to think about:
The Art of Listening

Supplies

Make your own tangrams

Square dot paper

Triangular dot paper

Diagrams for #4 on page 579

Regular polygons

5x5 geoboard paper

Pentominos

6 x 5 dotpaper for #3, page 604

Nets for 3D figures

Surface Area formulas -- sketches

Circle Ring Problem

Handouts

For documents from earlier in the
semester, click here

About tessellations

Practice for Weds 10/1

Solutions for 10/1

Hand-in HW4 due 10-8

3D-terminology

Analyzing triangles

Review for Test 2

Solutions to Review 2

Solutions to problems on Schedule-3

Hand-in HW6

Review for Test 3

Review 3 Solutions

Scale and similarity

Answers-scale and similarity

Main ideas T103

GSP Demos

GSP--parallelogram rotate and reflect

GSP--Corresponding angles and parallels

GSP-tessellation sketches

GSP Box diagonals

GSP-analyze triangles

GSP--length and area

GSP - Pyramid slant height

Geometer's Sketchpad from
Key Curriculum Press

Applets

Virtual Manipulatives - Geometry

Slope Applet 1

Slope Applet 2

Symmetry Applets

Geoboard applets

Exterior and central angles in n-gons

What is Pi?

Quadrilateral Tessellation

NCTM Virtual Tangrams

NCTM Virtual Geoboard

Standards links

Indiana Academic Standards for Mathematics
(see standards 4 and 5, in any grade level)

Geometry learning across the grades
The NCTM Principles and Standards
(Geometry section)
.

NCTM Pre K - 2 Geometry Standards

NCTM Grades 3 - 5 Geometry Standards

NCTM Grades 6 - 8 Geometry Standards

Last modified November 16, 2008