One of the goals of the GeT: A Pencil community is to improve the instructional capacity for high school geometry. Geometry courses for teachers can be instrumental in preparing teachers with that instructional capacity. It is pertinent to ask what evidence we can use to steer that mission. Unlike in the K-12 environment where curriculum […]

Last year, the Teaching GeT (Geometry for Teachers) Group started to think about the question: what materials could we produce that would be most helpful for a new teacher of a GeT course? We quickly ran into an issue: unlike many other mathematical subjects, there isn’t a standard curriculum for a GeT course. Many different kinds […]

When I joined the Geometry for Teachers (GeT) group in the summer of 2018, one thing that was always clear to me was that the GeT course at various institutions is very different. During the 2019 – 2020 academic year the Teaching GeT group, led by Dr. Nat Miller, made a huge effort to create […]

Four questions with Priya Prasad, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

In recent years, a transformation perspective has come to the fore in K-12 standards (National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010; NCTM, 2018) leading many college instructors to transition their geometry for teachers courses to include transformation geometry. Unfortunately, at any level, there has been “limited research explicitly on the […]

“Social interaction provides us with the opportunity to use others as resources, to share our ideas with others, and to participate in the joint construction of knowledge.”(Smith & Stein, 2011, p. 1) The rapid transition to online instruction in the spring forced many instructors to develop remote learning strategies that sacrificed high-quality instructional practices out […]