I am having a great time teaching the geometry course that we have at Brooklyn Collaborative. The last time I taught Geometry was in 2011 at the High School of the Future in Philadelphia and it was very different. The textbooks were uninteresting and we relied on too much of a method of proofs that is boring and difficult to use.
At our school we use the College Prep Math version of Geometry that involves hinged mirrors and protractors to learn about different shapes and how they relate to each other. Today was the first day of using them and I was surprised how high level the conversations got. I even had three conversations about the idea that circles have an infinite number of sides and no sides at all. It was great. And, as you can see, there was a lot of collaboration. It was a good class.
At our school we use the College Prep Math version of Geometry that involves hinged mirrors and protractors to learn about different shapes and how they relate to each other. Today was the first day of using them and I was surprised how high level the conversations got. I even had three conversations about the idea that circles have an infinite number of sides and no sides at all. It was great. And, as you can see, there was a lot of collaboration. It was a good class.
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