Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 7: Pythagorean Squares◊ Today is a “perfect square day” since the date is 9-16-25 (or 16-9-25 if you live somewhere that puts the day first…| Reflections and Tangents
Last week had a special math-y date: 7-24-25, which is a Pythagorean triple. This means that the sum of the squares of the smaller two numbers equals the square of the largest number. Let’s d…| Reflections and Tangents
Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 6: Quadrilaterals ◊ In Episode 5, we took a brief look at trapezoids, and that got me thinking about the family of quadrilaterals: all the wonderful four-sided polygons that students learn about in geometry. How might Dynamic Geometry (DG) help our learners investigate these shapes? Constructing Parallelograms … Continue reading Go For Geometry! 6→| Reflections and Tangents
Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 2: Draw Vs. Construct ◊ When using Dynamic Geometry technology platforms, a careful distinction must be made between a figure that is DRAWN…| Reflections and Tangents
