The emergent consensus our community has reached on the student learning outcomes for geometry courses for teachers allows us to come back to one of the aspirations of the initial working groups in GeT: A Pencil–the creation of a task repository. Indeed, the collaborative curation of resources for teaching GeT courses could be a next […]

Introduction  Makerspaces, varying in shape and size, serve as spaces where students convene to create, invent, tinker, explore, and discover using a diverse range of tools and materials. Makerspaces are natural places for developing mathematical arguments and mathematical models, where geometric assumptions are supported and real-world complexities arise. Drawing inspiration from an eighth grade makerspace […]

Early in my involvement with the GeT ESLO group, I asked about the end goal of the group. I asked this question because I suspected that my goal was different from some of the other members of the group. Sure, I agreed that the Geometry for Teachers courses needed guidelines to ensure that the course […]

Four questions with Scot Acre, Mathematics Teacher at the Macomb Mathematics Science Technology Center On the job, memories from high school, attending conferences, reading books, belonging to professional organizations.  I love the visual nature of the subject. I love how Geometry began as a way to figure out what was going on in the world. […]

Over the past few months, many of you have contributed chapters to an edited volume that the GeT:A Pencil Community will soon be submitting to the MAA. Some of you are still in the process of wrapping up a chapter. In the next month or so, the co-editorial team will be asking many of you, […]