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Tessellation Tip
In order to keep them from crawling up the walls in their last week before summer vacation, I’ve given my seventh graders a tessellation project. There are about ten million youtube videos explaining how to do this, so I won’t
Geometry in the Real World
Whenever I’m working on geometry with my students, I try to keep the focus as real-world as possible. So much of math operates in the abstract; geometry, by contrast, is thoroughly tangible. This is a time when we can easily
Geometry Across the Curriculum
I use geometric drawing across the curriculum in several projects. Below is an in-progress shot of an 8th-grader’s design for a stained glass window, an assignment from my medieval history unit that incorporates symbolism along with geometric design. In world
Construct a Hexagon
The construction for a regular hexagon is a favorite of my students every year and the one most of them choose as a basis for their geometric design project. We are simply going to begin with a line and use