Geometric Structures An Inquiry-Based Approach for Prospective Elementary and Middle School Teachers

<b>For prospective elementary and middle school teachers. </b></p> </p> This text provides a creative, inquiry-based experience with geometry that is appropriate for prospective elementary and middle school teachers. The coherent series of text activities supports each student's growth toward being a confident, independent learner empowered with the help of peers to make sense of the geometric world. This curriculum is explicitly developed to provide future elementary and middle school teachers with</p> </p> <ul> <li>experience recalling and appropriately using standard geometry ideas, </li> <li>experience learning and making sense of new geometry, </li> <li>experience discussing geometry with peers, </li> <li>experience asking questions about geometry, </li> <li>experience listening and understanding as others talk about geometry, </li> <li>experience gaining meaning from reading geometry, </li> <li>experience expressing geometry ideas through writing, </li> <li>experience thinking about geometry, and</li> <li>experience doing geometry.</li> </ul> </p> These activities constitute an "inquiry based" curriculum. In this style of learning and teaching, whole class discussions and group work replace listening to lectures as the dominant class activity. </p> </p>