Over the summer, the Transformation Working Group was facilitated by Steven Boyce and placed a special focus on a lesson study (Boyce et. al., 2021) involving Adinkra symbols originating from Ghana (Eglash et. al., n.d.). During this time, the group conducted research related to the lesson study and submitted work for publication. In the fall, the group will continue work on the lesson study, including working to make changes to the lesson itself. Currently, some members of the transformation group are conducting extra meetings outside of typical transformation group times to allow time to focus on this lesson.

This fall, the Transformation Working Group plans to spend a significant portion of its efforts on creating transformation geometry themed chapter proposals for The GeT course: Resources and Objectives for the Geometry Courses for Teachers. Once chapter proposals have been created, it is likely that the group meetings will be at least partially devoted to writing time for these chapters. Additionally, the group plans to discuss how we are preparing our future teachers to teach transformation geometry in schools, specifically how we are preparing them to choose appropriate tasks. Currently, theTransformation Working Group meets on Wednesdays at 11am (EDT) every other week.

References

Boyce, S., Ion, M., Lai, Y., McLeod, K., Pyzdrowski, L., Sears, R., & St. Goar, J. (2021, May 6). Best-Laid Co-Plans for a Lesson on Creating a Mathematical Definition. AMS Blogs: On Teaching and Learning Mathematics. https://blogs.ams.org/matheducation/2021/05/06/best-laid-co-plans-for-a-lesson-on-creating-a-mathematical-definition/ 

Eglash, R., Bennet, A., Krishnamoorthy, M., Sawyer, S., & Adali, S. (n.d.) Adinkra Background. Culturally Situated Design Tools. https://csdt.org/culture/adinkra/index.html