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Using Polygons Card Sort Activity to Attend to Precision in Geometric Vocabulary and Concepts
Submitted by Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida; Orly Buchbinder, University of New Hampshire Technological tools can be used in teacher preparation programs to develop students’ conceptual understanding of the properties of polygons and to communicate appropriate vocabulary (Kartal & Çınar, 2024). The exploration opportunities afforded using technological tools, such as Desmos, can help students…
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The Role of Angles and Angle Measure in a Transformations-based Approach to Geometry
Submitted by Kevin McLeod, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In this note, I would like to present one recurring issue that surfaced in the discussions of the GeT Transformation Geometry Working Group, and a partial resolution of that issue, contained in a suggestion by one of the reviewers of our chapter in the forthcoming GeT volume McLeod…
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Technology in GeT Courses
Submitted by Tuyin An, Georgia Southern University; Sharon Vestal, South Dakota State University; Erin Krupa, North Carolina State University; Orly Buchbinder, University of New Hampshire Technology is integral to modern education, supporting exploration, computation, assessment, communication, and motivation. National curriculum and teacher preparation standards, such as the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (NGA & CCSSO, 2010)…
