Activities,
Demonstrations, and Projects that Enhance the Study of Undergraduate Geometry Sunday, January 11, 2015 Part I: 8:00 AM –
10:15 AM Part II:
1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Organizer: Sarah Mabrouk, Framingham State University |
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This session invites presenters
to share activities, demonstrations, and projects used to enhance the study
of Euclidean or non-Euclidean geometry in undergraduate geometry courses;
presentations related to differential geometry, (low-level) graduate courses,
and the Pythagorean Theorem should not be submitted. Presentations should
include information about related topics, preliminary material that must be
examined with students, and objectives and expected outcomes. Presenters
discussing activities and demonstrations are encouraged to perform the
activity or give the demonstration, if time and equipment allow, and to
discuss the appropriateness of the activity or demonstration for the course
level, learning environment, and class size. Presenters discussing projects
are encouraged to address how the project was conducted, presented, and
evaluated, including grading issues, if any, and the rubric used to appraise
student work. Each presenter is encouraged to discuss how the activity,
demonstration, or project fits into the course as well as changes made over
time, the use of technology, if any, student reaction, and the effect of the
activity, demonstration, or project on the students’ understanding of related
course material and geometry, in general. |
Part I: 8:00 AM – 10:15 AM Room 203B, San Antonio Convention
Center |
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8:00 AM Napoleon's Problem Pat Touhey, Misericordia University |
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8:20 AM Geometric Constructions Through Paper Folding Ewelina S. McBroom, Southeast Missouri State
University |
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8:40 AM Locus Problems and Analytic Geometry Peiyi Zhao, St. Cloud State University |
9:00 AM Compass and Ruler Constructions Revisited Marian
F Anton, Central Connecticut State University |
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9:20 AM Trisections in the Undergraduate Geometry Classroom Teresa
E. Moore, Ithaca College L.
Christine Kinsey, Canisius College |
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9:40 AM Using a Dynamic Software Program to Develop Geometrical
Theorems Laura
M. Singletary, Lee University |
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10:00 AM Completing SET: Using the Card Game SET to Demonstrate How
to Extend Finite Affine Geometry to Finite Projective Geometry Douglas
G Burkholder, Lenoir-Rhyne University |
Part II: 1:00 PM – 4:15 PM Room 203B, San Antonio Convention
Center |
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1:00 PM Mathematics, Fractals & Fashion Design: A Student-Created Fractal Sculpture Alice E Petillo, Marymount University |
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1:20 PM Wooden You Like to Play with Some Penrose Tiles? Josh
Thompson, Northern Michigan University |
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1:40 PM On the Use of Visual Mathematics Andras Bezdek, Auburn
University |
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2:00 PM The Ruler Matters Daniel
Dobbs, Huntington University |
2:20 PM Geometry via Student Proof Presentations Mark
A. Brown, MidAmerica Nazarene University |
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2:40 PM Finding Treasure: Exploring Taxicab Geometry through a
Game Leah
R Childers, Benedictine College |
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3:00 PM Jack and the Beanstalk, Flintstone and Color Geometries:
Teaching Finite Geometries in a Course for Secondary Education Mathematics
Students Ward
Heilman, Bridgewater State University |
3:20 PM Transformation Composition - A Concrete, Constructive
Approach Michael
D Hvidsten, Gustavus
Adolphus College |
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3:40 PM Mini-Chapters for College Geometry William
E. Fenton, Bellarmine University |
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4:00 PM Planar Hyperbolic Geometry through Inquiry David
Crombecque, University of Southern California |
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