Here we are with GeT: The News! It’s May of 2020, and what’s new? Since the last Newsletter, COVID-19 has brought challenges and changes to everybody in the world, including those of us in higher education. Lives have been lost to COVID-19, including those whose work was close to the work of our community. Among […]

Motivated by the goal of engaging more students in doing mathematics, we have been investigating connections between geometry and art. Geometry textbooks include problems that are situated in various art-based contexts such as architecture, crafts, and drawing. In our conversations with geometry teachers, we have found that they welcome opportunities to teach geometry through art. […]

Introduction When the Danish mathematics professor Julius Petersen (1839-1910) published Metoder og teorier til løsning af geometriske konstruktionsopgaver (Methods and Theories for the Solution of Problems of Geometrical Constructions, Petersen, 1866), his handbook on geometrical constructions initially did not draw much attention. However, when a second addition appeared in 1879, it was translated into at […]

Four questions with Steven Boyce, Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University

In this article, I share what the GRIP Lab has learned by collecting responses from Geometry for Teachers (GeT) students who have taken our mathematical knowledge for teaching geometry (MKT-G) assessment before and after taking the GeT course. MKT-G instrument Herbst and Kosko (2014) developed an instrument to measure MKT-G that follows the definitions of […]