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Started in Fall 2019, GeT: The News! Is a triennial newsletter meant to deepen bonds and share ideas within the GeT: A Pencil, an inter-institutional support network for instructors of Geometry for Teachers (GeT) courses and high school geometry teachers. Each issue includes news from the GRIP Lab about the GeT Support project as well as featured essays and news from individuals in the community. Check out a summary of our most recent issue below as well as links to view all past issues.
Fall 2022
Volume 4 Issue 1
Welcome to the Fall 2022 issue of GeT: The News! Download the PDF here.
In this issue, Amanda Brown shares a call for chapter proposals for a forthcoming book on GeT courses. Amanda, on behalf of her co-editors (Pat Herbst, Nat Miller, and Laura Pyzdrowski), requests that newsletter readers spread the word to potential chapter contributors.
Steve Szydlik assesses some of the affordances and challenges of utilizing hyperbolic geometry within a GeT course, explains the link of Euclidean constructions and hyperbolic models, and provides ways to explore these hyperbolic models with Geogebra. Christopher C. Tisdell discusses the potential of a circle arc template to replace the traditional compass in the learning and teaching of geometric constructions within schools. Sharon Vestal, Orly Buchbinder, and Tuyin An explain their project which aims to explore the question: “How and to what extent does engaging GeT students with the FullProof software affect their competence with, and beliefs about geometry proofs?”
Pat Herbst announces a new working group: Engaging with the Student Learning Objectives (ESLO). Julia St.Goar updates us on the Transformation Working Group’s focus over the summer as well as what the group will be focusing on for the fall. Nat Miller announces the first public version of the Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) and tells us what the group will be continuing to work on.
Our community spotlight features GeT instructor Mara Markinson. Also included in this newsletter are the upcoming seminars.
We hope that you enjoy this issue and will consider contributing an essay in the future. We also welcome any feedback about the newsletter: GRIP@umich.edu.
We welcome contributions from members of the GeT: A Pencil community! Activities you tried in class, things you observed your students do, reflections on your experience teaching, thoughts on what the GeT course should include . . . any of these and others would be fair game to write about. Consider the length of the articles in this issue as examples of how long your piece could be. To pitch your idea, email us at GRIP@umich.edu.
We hope that you enjoy this issue and will consider contributing an essay in the future (details on pg. 3). We also welcome any feedback about the newsletter: GRIP@umich.edu.
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Past Issues
Volume 3
Volume 2
Volume 1