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| Topic: | One of my favorite tools |
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| Subject: | RE: one of Lanius' favorite tools |
| Author: | Craig |
| Date: | Aug 10 2006 |
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> I have used this tool http://mathforum.org/mathtools/tool/16772/ in
> teacher workshops because I love both the "game" aspect of it, the
> challenge, as well as the ease with which it provides the 3-D
> perspective. A drawing designed to convey the 3-D is just that,
> still a 2-D drawing. But with this, you can spin the 2-D's to really
> feel like you're looking at a 3-D object, even though it's still
> really on a flat screen object. I'd like to get other folks' opinion
> of how this tool supports learning.
I used this tool (along with several others in the same "family" [search
Freudenthal in the MathTools catalog]) on the second or third day of a unit in
Geometry (high school level) on 3-d objects. Students who were good at
visualizing raced against each other with the tool; students who had trouble
visualizing were successful in using the tools to improve their skills. Very
effective!
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