Every math teacher has a preferred area of mathematics. My coworker/friend Kate loves trig and calculus, my boss likes algebra, and I just so happen to love geometry. I think what I like about it is that everything has real world applications. The pictures help visual learners make sense of things and it seems to be more of a hands on type of math for some reason.
All of those reasons, AND I get to do some really cool projects with my geometry classes of course! Geometry just lends itself to cool projects because there are so many cool things you can do with shapes, area, angles, you name it.
This week I have started my geometry kids on a new project: the Geometry Game Project. Each group has to make a game based on geometric probability, like darts, and be able to play it with the class when they are due at the end of the week. Lucky for me, my students have totally gotten into it and I think some of these projects are going to turn out very cool.
I will just say this, I am now a proud owner of a Nerf Gun (for geometric purposes only, I swear!). These projects are going to rock! Stay tuned for how they are going, this is what they look like so far:
Best Geometry tool I have purchased thus far.
Two girls are making a game sort of like Plunko- how cool is that?!
Lots of cool looking posters with geometric shapes and calculations on them. Can't wait to hang these on the classroom walls!
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