MA 241 -- Geometry for Middle School Teachers

Notes

• Notes, excluding comments for the instructor

Software

• Peanut Software homepage (including Wingeom)
• POV-Ray website

Wingeom Files (Must be downloaded, and then opened within Wingeom. Open wg2 files from a 2-dim window; open wg3 files from a 3-dim window.)

• Building1.1.wg3
• Building1.6.1.wg3
• Building1.6.2.wg3
• Building1.6.3.wg3
• Building1.6.4.wg3
• Cavalieri.wg3
• Cubedissect.wg3
• Cubedissect2.wg3
• Foldcube.wg3
• Folddodecahedron.wg3
• Foldicosahedron.wg3
• Foldoctahedron.wg3
• Foldpyramid.wg3
• Foldtetrahedron.wg3
• Iso1.wg2
• Iso2.wg2
• Iso3.wg2
• Iso4.wg2
• Iso5.wg2
• Iso6.wg2
• Iso7.wg2
• Iso8.wg2
• Reflection1.2.wg2
• Unitcircle.wg2
• Physrefl.wg2

POV-Ray Files (pov files must be downloaded, and then opened within POV-Ray)

• Cubes.pov
• Pyramid.pov
• Shapes.pov
• POVRayTextures.doc

Related Websites

• Connected Mathematics Project
• Connected Mathematics Videos
• Geometry Archives at UT
• Geometry in Utopia II
• Geometry Step by Step from the Land of the Incas
• Google Earth
• Google SketchUp
• Heinemann. This is a link where you can purchase the "Connecting Mathematical Ideas: Middle School Video Cases to Support Teaching and Learning" by Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphreys
• Kentucky Core Content for Assessment
• LDraw is an open standard for LEGO CAD programs that allow the user to create virtual LEGO models and scenes. You can use it to document models you have physically built, creating building instructions just like LEGO, render 3D photo realistic images of your vitual models and even make animations.
• The Math Forum: Geometry
• Mathworld
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• NCTM Standards
• On Being the Right Size
• Wallpaper Groups