Julia St. Goar, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Merrimack College, received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of Mathematics. Erin Krupa, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education, North Carolina State University, has received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor, effective August 15, 2022.

In the spring of 2022, the transformation geometry working group advanced several of its on-going goals. One of the major goals of the past year has been collecting and creating activities and sequences of activities that contribute to student understanding of the topic of transformations. In the spring of 2021, the working group created a […]

My introduction to the GeT community was attending the Teaching GeT working group a week before I presented a seminar to the group in November of 2020. I wanted to get to know the community before I presented my NSF-sponsored DRK-12 grant (DRL 1907745), Using Animated Contrasting Cases to Improve Procedural and Conceptual Knowledge in Geometry (AC2inG), which […]

The Grip Lab was representing strong this past week at AERA. Carolyn Hetrick and Irma Stevens traveled to San Diego to present work on the GeT Project and the T4D Project, respectively.  On Thursday, Carolyn presented work done by  several GRIP Lab members (Inese, Mike, Carolyn,Pat, Amanda) and GeT: A Pencil community members. At a […]

Earlier this spring, members from the GRIP lab (Mike Ion, Irma Stevens, Inah Ko) and some members from the GeT: A Pencil community (Steve Boyce, Julia St. Goar, Ruthmae Sears) organized a working group called “Teaching Geometry for Secondary Teachers” in Boston, MA at the 2022 Conference on Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education to convene […]

The Teaching GeT working group has been keeping very busy. Several members of the working group got back from presenting our work developing essential Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) for GeT classes at the annual AMTE meeting in Las Vegas.  We are aiming to have a website with our SLOs and narratives up by the end […]

In the Spring of 2022, the transformation group will likely focus on investigating existing teaching materials on geometry from a transformation perspective. As a reminder, a transformation perspective in geometry often involves approaching symmetry, congruence, similarity, and other geometry concepts/theorems using translations, rotations, reflections, and dilations. Through the investigation of such teaching materials, the group […]

Ruthmae Sears, Associate Professor at University of South Florida, was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). You can read more about this recognition and her work here. Tuyin An, Assistant Professor at Georgia Southern University, has received tenure and has been promoted to Associate Professor, effective August 1, 2022. […]

In the fall of 2021, the transformation group will continue its ongoing goal of collecting and creating activities and sequences of activities that contribute towards student understanding of the topic of transformations. As part of this effort, in the spring of 2021, the group created a lesson (Boyce et. al., 2021) relating to transformations and […]

The Teaching GeT working group has been making a lot of progress! Over the summer, we wrote an article about the essential Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) for GeT classes that we have been developing. This article has been submitted to AMTE Professional Book Series, Vol. 5: Reflection on Past, Present and Future: Paving the Way for […]