One-straight-cut activities engage middle-school students in learning about symmetry and geometric transformations.
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Encouraging Students to LOVE MATH with One-Straight-Cut Letters
Yi-Yin (Winnie) Ko, Connor A. Goodwin, Lauren Ream, and Grace Rebber
Varying the Intensity of Scaffolding for English Learners
Haiwen Chu, Jill Neumayer DePiper, and Leslie Hamburger
Vary the intensity of pedagogical scaffolding along three dimensions—grouping, structure, and language—with the same rigorous prompt.
The Beauty of Regular Hexagons
Arsalan Wares
The author shares geometry that inspires him.
Construct It! Triangle Puzzle Challenges
Enrique Ortiz
This article presents an original puzzle that supports students’ development of visual thinking and geometry ideas based on the Van Hiele levels of geometric thought.
Imagine It! Choose Your Own Pattern Block Adventure
Anita A. Wager, Brittany Caldwell, and Jamie Vescio
When given the opportunity to play with mathematical materials and ideas, children demonstrate their mathematical understanding in innovative ways.
GPS: Teaching Shapes Inclusively
Samuel Otten, Tiffany J. LaCroix, Faustina Baah, and Rebekah Hanak
Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
Composing Tangram Puzzles to Support Shape Transformation
Laura Bofferding and Yi Zhu
Different types of tangram puzzles can encourage students to make sense of problems and engage in the computational thinking practice of debugging.
Math-Inspired Artwork
Alessandra King, Sophia Ouanes, and Claire Doh
Students and teachers enjoy exploring the boundaries between mathematics and art.
GPS: Triangle Explorations and Constructions Using Robots
Hyejin Park, Tuğba Boz, Amanda Sawyer, and James C. Willingham
Growing Problem Solvers provides four original, related, classroom-ready mathematical tasks, one for each grade band. Together, these tasks illustrate the trajectory of learners’ growth as problem solvers across their years of school mathematics.
It’s Off the Screen: Unearthing Megagons Through Technology
Sean Nank, Jaclyn M. Murawska, and Steven J. Edgar
Mathematical action technology can foster equitable student discourse. Students engage in cycles of proof to create, test, and revise conjectures through dynamic exploration of the Pythagorean theorem.
