Transform Your Geometry Teaching With These Free Online Resources
Session 436
http://mathforum.org/workshop/nctmindy/session-436/
Presenters: Steve Risberg, Annie Fetter
Goal: Participants will reflect on teaching and learning geometry through an exploration of free online Math Forum resources
Agenda:
1) Free online interactive Geometry problems (tPoWs): http://mathforum.org/tpow/
Download the recording sheet that we used for this part.
Note: to access the Math Forum Problems of the Week featured here, you need to sign up for a free Math Forum membership.
c) Tangrams tPoW, combined with Jing screencapturing
2) Interactive, technology-enhanced Geometry applets, problems, lesson plans, etc…. MathTools: http://mathforum.org/mathtools/
a) Browsing the catalog, e.g. Triangle Congruence Activities
i) Reviews
ii) Discussions
b) Logging in to save items, review, see others’ reviews, discuss, etc.
3) Got Questions? Dr. Math has answers! http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
a) FAQ’s
b) Selected Answers, e.g. Triangle Congruence, Quadrilateral Hierarchies
4) And Much, Much More: Free online orientation sessions for math teachers: http://mathforum.org/pd/