Geometrical Concepts from Constructions, Models, and Investigations SummaryMonday, July 1, 2002We started off introducing ourselves and talking about why we were interested in Geometry. We were very surprised to find that we had many things in common, the most surprising being that the majority of us teach out of Michael Serra's book, Discovering Geometry. We also discussed a mission for our group.
So, we're looking at going in two directions. First, we'd like to continue to polish our two projects from last year. Secondly, we'd like to pursue the idea of setting Philip Mallinson's PCMI Geometry problem sets from last year onto the web as a distrance learning class for teachers (and perhaps bright students). We plan to incorporate group members interests and passions into our work. We then did some work with triangular numbers and deriving the formula for generating them: n(n + 1)/2. We also looked at Pascal's triangle and noticed that on the diagonals we have linear numbers, triangular numbers and tetrahedral numbers. As a reference we looked at figurative numbers from John Conway's The Book of Numbers. |