AMSP Summer 2004 Workshop - Geometry for Middle School Teachers

General Information

• AMSP Introduction (Powerpoint file)
• Geometry Workshop Description (powerpoint file) (NEEDS UPDATING)
• Facilitator Schedule (NEEDS UPDATING)
• Workshop Schedule (NEEDS UPDATING)
• AMSP Website Notes
• Proposing Your Classroom Implementation
• Sample Classroom Implementation Proposal
• Proposing your Sharing with Colleagues
• Sample Proposal for Sharing with Teachers and Parent s
• Activity Record
• Sounding Board
• Peer Mentoring
• Measurement Bingo Warmup
• Punny Geometry Warmup

Websites

• AMSP Website
• Other Initiatives in the Region
  • ARSI Website
  • ACCLAIM Website
• Standards
  • NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics
  • Kentucky Core Content for Assessment
  • Tennessee Curriculum Standards
  • Virginia Standards of Learning
• Mathematics and Geometry
  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
  • Mathematics Association of American
  • American Mathematical Society
  • Connected Mathematics Project
  • Math Forum
  • Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  • The Geometry Center
  • The Geometry Junkyard
  • Connected Geometry (High School)
  • Geometry in Utopia
  • Native American Geometry
  • Geometry Scavenger Hunt
  • On Being the Right Size
  • Powers of Ten
• Software
  • Peanut Software Homepage
  • Wingeom Website
  • Wingeom Tutorial (from the Wingeom website)
  • POV-Ray Website
  • TI.com
  • Information on TI Connect
  • FractaSketch (for the Macintosh)
• General Teaching Resources
  • AAA Math - Basic Math Skills
  • Video Placement Worldwide
  • Teaching Tools
  • 4 Teachers (including Rubistar Rubric maker and Project-Based Learning checklists)
  • ALEKS Math Tutor
  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
  • ETA Cuisenaire
  • NASCO
  • Math Projects Journal
  • Mathematics Worksheet Factory

Covering and Surrounding

• List of Topics
• Measuring Polygons with the TI-73 Geoboard
• Area Formulas with the TI-73
• Rectangular Dog Pen
• Bird's Eye View
• Storm Shelter Data Sheet
• Exploring Pi with the TI-73
• Exploring Pi with Wingeom

Filling and Wrapping

• List of Topics
• Measuring Prisms
• Ice Cream Cone
  • Cone1 (Wingeom file)
  • Cone2 (Wingeom file)
  • Obj3D1 (Wingeom file)
  • Obj3D2 (Wingeom file)
• Making Prisms and Pyramids with Wingeom
• Making Regular Prisms and Pyramids with Wingeom
• Cavalieri's Principle Example (Wingeom file)
• Play Dough Recipe
• Radius Squares and Proofs by Pictures
• Pyramid Puzzles
• Volumes and Surface Areas of Prisms and Pyramids
• Disproportionate Dolls
• Disproportional Dolls - Teacher's Guide
• Basketball Court Measurements
• Folding Nets with Wingeom (animate with the # slider)
  • Folding Pyramid
  • Folding Tetrahedron
  • Folding Cube
  • Folding Octahedron
  • Folding Dodecahedron
  • Folding Icosahedron

Ruins of Montarek

• List of Topics
• Thorleif's SOMA Page
• Making Polyhedra with Modular Origami
• Cubes from Business Cards
• Viewing Buildings with Wingeom
  • Building1.1.wg3 (Wingeom file)
  • Building1.6.1.wg3 (Wingeom file)
  • Building1.6.2.wg3 (Wingeom file)
  • Building1.6.3.wg3 (Wingeom file)
  • Building1.6.4.wg3 (Wingeom file)
• Reflecting Polygons with Wingeom
  • Reflection1.2.wg2 (Wingeom file)
• Reflected Buildings with Wingeom
  • Reflection1.6.wg3 (Wingeom file)
• Constructing Buildings with Wingeom
• Wingeom Directions
• Viewing Shapes with Wingeom
  • Building4.3.wg3 (Wingeom file)
• Scaling Buildings
• Three Dimensional Coordinates
• Constructing Buildings with POV-Ray
  • Cubes.pov (POV-Ray file)
  • POV-Ray Textures
• Constructing Other Polyhedra with Wingeom
• Wingeom with Coordinates
• Constructing Other Polyhedra with POV-Ray
  • Pyramid.pov (POV-Ray file)
• Constructing Other Shapes with POV-Ray
  • Shapes.pov (POV-Ray file)
• Spheres.pov (POV-Ray file)
• Spheres.ppt (Powerpoint file)
• Lee Roher's Powerpoint Lesson for Ruins of Montarek, Part 1 (Powerpoint file)
• Lee Roher's Powerpoint Lesson for Ruins of Montarek, Part 2 (Powerpoint file)
• Lee Roher's Powerpoint Lesson for Ruins of Montarek, Part 3 (Powerpoint file)
• Lee Roher's Powerpoint Lesson for Ruins of Montarek, Part 4 (Powerpoint file)
• Lee Roher's Powerpoint Lesson for Ruins of Montarek, Part 5 (Powerpoint file)
• Lee Roher's Powerpoint Lesson for Ruins of Montarek, Part 6 (html file)