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The Geometry Forum Newsletter

Summer 1994, page 1

What is The Geometry Forum?

The Geometry Forum is an electronic community of teachers, students, and researchers of geometry, and is built around

a set of Internet newsgroups for teachers and students in high school and college, mathematics education and research, people in science and industry, developers of materials for geometry education (books, software, videos, manipulatives -- anyone with a love for or interest in geometry;
an extensive Internet archive of geometry software, articles, reviews, discussions, and other geometry-related materials with ftp, gopher, and World Wide Web access;
training programs and ongoing support from a staff dedicated to facilitating your use of the Forum and its resources;
new software for convenient newsreading woven into the World Wide Web.

Accessing the Forum: Do you need an Internet account?

We can direct you to service providers. If you have an account already, you can read our newsgroups: geometry.announcements, geometry.college, geometry.forum, geometry.institutes, geometry.pre-college, geometry.puzzles, and geometry.research, from your newsreader or via e-mail. Our ftp, gopher, and World Wide Web servers can all be found at mathforum.org.

Questions? Write us or call (800) 756-7823.

Why use the Geometry Forum? There's a lot out there to enhance the teaching of geometry and other areas of mathematics.

With the Forum we're trying to provide the means for teachers to access materials, services, and ideas in a fast and convenient manner. From my discussions with teachers, I'd expect that if you were a high school teacher you'd want to use the Geometry Forum to

get some broad-based advice on a course you're teaching
let other teachers know of a successful approach you've just discovered
ask other teachers why an approach that should have been successful wasn't
find challenging problems
read current articles relating to geometry that might help make the subject more alive for your students
find or set up a class project that could be done with a school in another state (e.g., measuring the distance from the earth to the moon)
keep in touch with people you meet at conferences
find out where to get new geometry software
ask a publisher about software you're using
learn what other teachers have done with software
discuss with fellow teachers how the new NCTM Standards could apply to your teaching
find sources of geometry models your students will enjoy building
be a part of the lively geometry community that already exists, but which currently lacks a convenient means of communication.

We invite you to join us on the Forum.

-- Gene Klotz, Director, The Geometry Forum
Department of Mathematics, Swarthmore College

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