tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118094056356737952.post477421261860111071..comments2024-02-22T23:23:48.792-05:00Comments on Jane Griswold Radocchia: Tessellations and GeometryJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03960577578174018923noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118094056356737952.post-56922129499456511602015-11-08T12:09:27.806-05:002015-11-08T12:09:27.806-05:00If I succeed with this teaching thing, you 'an...<br />If I succeed with this teaching thing, you 'anonymous' had better come along, critique, and add all the useful stuff I don't know about. Looking forward to itJanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03960577578174018923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8118094056356737952.post-19554558792942542612015-11-08T11:33:14.095-05:002015-11-08T11:33:14.095-05:00Jane, that looks like fun. I messed with that stuf...Jane, that looks like fun. I messed with that stuff since I was little, but with no guidance, all I got from doing it in school was detention or loss of recess. I do wish high school had a bit more of that logic stuff. Neither most of my chem/physics folk nor my mathematically challenged college freshmen could tell me why they did something in a solution. So I adapted the old T form with headings, "I can do this" and "Because." After about a zillion reps they were rearranging and solving equations with some understanding of the math rules.Once in a while I'd chaange the headings to "done" and "To undo." Have you ever seen a program called Polyhedraville? I adapted it from Gr 4-6 to my zoo crew Gr11 - 12s. It was fascinating to watch them go. They had to build a town and had a budget based on the number of sides. One girl came up with a loan program for groups whose designs exceeded their resources. Another kid went down to shop and cut scale vehicles for the streets. Takes a lot of patrolling and listening to be sure they're using vocabulary correctly blah blah blah. One kid made a song for the project to Jimmy Buffet's tune with the same number of syllables. So, Jane, you are going to have a wonderful time - <br />relax and stay alert (:-}Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com