Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
TORCH (Teacher Outreach) Program
at
Oklahoma State University

August 13 - 17, 1990
Geometry

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This one-week summer institute presented new directions in the content and teaching of high school geometry. The Institute Leaders who are master teachers of high school geometry and who have had extensive training at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey presented the institute. The 25 selected participants, themselves practicing mathematics teachers, represented school districts from across the state of Oklahoma. They had opportunities to explore a variety of topics in the geometry curriculum, including the use of manipulatives and state-of-the-art computer software, alternative teaching strategies, modeling, and geometric problem solving.

The institute participants incorporated many of the notions of the institute into their teaching practices and developed extensions of them for use in the classroom. These extensions were presented during the one-day follow-up session on April 13, 1991 that was conducted by Paula Fitzmaurice. Subsequently, several participants made presentations at conferences of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of Mathematics (OCTM), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and in their districts.



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Doug Aichele (aichele@math.okstate.edu)