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Nat Miller, Steve Boyce, Mara Markinson, Amanda Brown, and Pat Herbst will be offering an online  workshop within the framework of the MAA Open Workshops

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Do you teach a college geometry course, or are you planning to teach one? Would you like more ways to think about what such a course should be about? Many first-time college geometry instructors have never taken a college geometry course themselves, and may have questions about what material to include and how to structure their course. This workshop will provide suggestions for how to structure your course around the GeT (Geometry for Teachers) Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), a framework of ten central ideas for teaching GeT courses developed by an inter-institutional faculty community of GeT course instructors.

Workshop participants will collaboratively work on geometry tasks, discuss considerations for course syllabi, share their expertise in teaching college geometry courses, and develop activities for students in college geometry courses. Participants will explore the 10 SLOs, which are focused on proof, critiquing reasoning, high school geometry content, axiomatic systems, definitions, technologies, Euclid, constructions, non-Euclidean geometries, and transformations. 

While this workshop is focused on developing college-level geometry courses for prospective secondary mathematics teachers, all those interested in the teaching and learning of geometry at the high school or college levels, regardless of whether they teach a course for teachers, are welcome to attend.

Please note that as a federally funded program, MAA OPEN Math can only accept participants from the U.S. and its territories, and Canada.

Registrants are asked to only sign up for one OPEN Math workshop for the summer.

This Halloween, the GRIP Lab participated in the spooky season by carving pumpkins and putting out candy for trick or treaters at the Marsal School of Education. Other participating departments in Marsal competed for the spookiest display!

Pictured are two members of the GRIP Lab, Rüya Savuran and Anthony Davis, posing in front of the GRIP Lab’s Trick-or-Treat display.

Dr. Gil Schwarts has published a new article about discussion facilitators in the journal For the Learning of Mathematics.

Dr. Amanda Brown and Dr. Pat Herbst were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant.

GRIP Lab participated in the annual pumpkin carving contest