The Main Books

The main sources for the TLP Geometry week are two of the CMP (Connected Math Project) books used in middle schools of the Seattle Public Schools.

Stretching and Shrinking: Similarity

ISBN 0-13-053101-4

Filling and Wrapping: Three-dimensional measurement

ISBN 0-13-053105-7

Videos

During the week, several videos will be shown from Project Mathematics at CalTech. These videos are happily free to copy by teachers. There are also Real Player video clips on the Web. The specific videos shown this week:

• Similarity
• The Theorem of Pythagoras
• The Story of Pi

Also, we will show a video from the Visual Mathematics Project

• The Platonic Solids

Software

The Geometer's Sketchpad 4 is dynamic geometry software from Key Curriculum Press. Student versions can be purchased in the textbook section of University Book Store. An Instructor Evaluation Edition can be downloaded from the web.

Materials

Polydrons - plastic solid polygonal shapes for polyhedral models.

Geoshapes - plastic outline polygonal shapes for polyhedral models (from Australia, these are not called Geofix in the USA)

Polypak puzzles - cubical puzzles