Since our last newsletter, there has been a lot of activity taking place within GeT: A Pencil. We last convened for a Community Meeting on January 19, 2024, and many of us had the pleasure of reconnecting at RUME in February. These gatherings, whether formal meetings or spontaneous encounters at conferences are cherished opportunities to […]

Both our Community Meeting and Sustainability Summit  kicked off with engaging updates from various community members. It was a privilege to hear about recent presentations and research findings related to the ongoing work taking place within GeT: A Pencil. If there are any updates we missed or overlooked, we encourage you to reach out; we […]

At the close of another academic year, we want to extend a note of appreciation to the hard work and engagement of each member of the working groups. Back in January, during the Community Meeting, we had the privilege of hearing updates from various Working Groups, each diligently working on projects related to curriculum development […]

When asked to write this article, I decided to use a bit of space to share some thoughts about the professional adventure that I have experienced as a member of the GeT community, a community which I find to be welcoming and collegial. Since becoming a member of this community, I have deepened my own […]

Since our last newsletter, there has been a lot of activity taking place within the GeT: A Pencil community. We recently convened for a Community Meeting on September 8, 2023, and many of us had the pleasure of reconnecting at PMENA 2023 in Reno. These gatherings, whether formal meetings or spontaneous encounters at conferences, are […]

Come see us in Reno at Atlantis Hotel and Casino Conference Center this week and be part of our PMN-NA discussions! Presentation Title: What does it mean for geometry teachers to improve a lesson? A multimodal analysisSpeakers: Gil Schwarts, Patricio Herbst, Soobin Jeon, & Amanda Brown  from the University of MichiganDate: October 3, 2023Time: 9:30 – 10:30 AMLocation: Atlantis Hotel […]

Members of the Teaching GeT Working Group have been working tirelessly to finish their submissions to the GeT course book.  Now that they are (mostly) all submitted, the group will be taking the summer off!  We will resume meeting in the fall.  Anyone interested is invited to join us then!

The ESLO working group is a cooperative group of high school geometry teachers, university GeT instructors who are mathematics teacher educators, and university GeT instructors wo are pure or applied mathematicians. Our group was founded in fall of 2022 and has continued to meet twice monthly this semester. Our charge over this academic year was […]

This summer, transformation meetings will focus on the on-going lesson study (Boyce et. al., 2023), where an evolving lesson involving Adinkra symbols from Ghana (Eglash, 2021; Willis, 1998) are used to reinforce several SLOs including SLO 10 (Transformations), SLO 5 (Definitions), and SLO 2 (Critique Reasoning). One possible future direction regarding the lesson study is […]

We are excited to finally announce that we are soliciting papers for a book about GeT courses! You can find the official call for papers here: https://getapencil.org/get-writing-rfp/. This book aims to be useful for everybody interested in the undergraduate geometry courses taken by pre-service teachers. In an earlier article (https://www.gripumich.org/v3-i3-sp2022/#towards-the-development-of-a-prospectus-for-a-get-a-pencil-book), I outlined some of the possible […]