| These are handouts from presentations I have conducted at various conferences and workshops, as well as projects I have done with my students. I hope the ideas can be useful to you in your math classes. If you use any of these materials, or if you have any questions or concerns, please email me. |
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| Transform Your Geometry Students -- An article (written in collaboration with a colleague) submitted to Mathematics Teacher (not published) presenting a hands-on approach to teaching transformations on the coordinate plane. |
| Picture This! -- A "graphing art" project; students make pictures on their graphing calculators, using their knowledge of transformations of functions. |
| Function Catalogs -- A year-long (or multi-year) project in which students catalog families of functions and transformations on them. |
| Toothpicks and PowerPoint -- A discovery lesson using low-tech (toothpicks) and high-tech (PowerPoint) materials to investigate the Ambiguous Case of the Law of Sines. |
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| Let Them Eat Pi -- Problems and activities to use for celebrating Pi Day. |
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| How Far to Where? -- An application of the Ambiguous case of the Law of Sines using highway maps. |
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| 2/26/08 -- Made corrections on "How Far to Where" handout and power point and on "Toothpicks and PowerPoint" power point. |
| Trig Tools -- Various activities for a trig class. |
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