Books, Papers and other Writing

Books

• Geometry Transformed: Euclidean Plane Geometry Based on Rigid Motions, 2021, by James King. American Mathematical Society.
• Geometry Through the Circle with The Geometer's Sketchpad, 1997, by James King. Key Curriculum Press.
• Geometry Turned On: Dynamic Software in Learning, Teaching, and Research. Edited by James King and Doris Schattschneider. Published by the Mathematical Association of America as Math Notes 41. This is a collection of papers about dynamic geometry software.
• Geometry and Computers, 1987, paper for volume Computing and Mathematics: The Use of Computers in Undergraduate Mathematics Instruction, The Mathematical Association of American.

Workshops and Presentations

• Slides from sessions at 2023 Northwest Mathematics Conference
  • Basing Your Geometry Course on Rigid Motions and Dilations
  
  
• Slides from sessions at 2022 Northwest Mathematics Conference
  • How Rigid Motions Can Change a Geometry course
  
  
• Slides from sessions at 2019 Northwest Mathematics Conference
  • Session 10/10/2019: Reasoning and Exploring with Rigid Motions in Geometry
  • Presentation 10/11/2019: A Transformational Perspective on Similarity in Geometry
  
  
• Slides from sessions at 2014 Northwest Mathematics Interaction Summer Workshop
  • Presentation 8/9/2014: Explorations of Rigid Motions and Congruence
  
  
• Slides from sessions at 2013 Northwest Mathematics Conference
  • Presentation 10/11/2013: How Transformations Help Us Think About Geometry
  • Session 10/12/2013: Hands-On Explorations of Plane Transformations
  
  
• Slides from sessions at 2013 Northwest Mathematics Interaction Summer Geometry
  • Cavalieri's Principle. A principle included in the Common Core State Standards.
  • Dissection Puzzles and the Geometry of Tessellations
  
  
• Slides from sessions at 2013 Northwest Mathematics Spring Workshop
  • What "the same" means in geometry: Congruence, Similarity,Transformations
  
  
• Slides from COMET panel at 2013 Joint Math Meetings, San Diego
  • How Mathematicians Can Help Teachers with the Common Core
  
  
• Slides from Park City Math Institute panel at 2012 Joint Math Meetings, Boston
  • Doing Math with Teachers in Washington State
  
  
• Slides from Workshop at 2011 National NCTM meeting: Cutting and Taping: Dissection and Special Ratios in Geometry
  • Powerpoint as pdf
  • Supporting document with answers
  
  
• Notes from Workshop at NCTM National Meeting 2009: Ratios in Geometry
  • Handout as pdf file
  • Geometer's Sketchpad (v4) presentation file


• Slides from 2010 presentation on "Traditional Algebra" at Puget Sound Council of Teachers and elsewhere.
  • Keynote slides as pdf file

• Materials from sessions at 2007 Northwest Mathematics Conference
  • Constructions with Compass Alone
  • Cutting Up and Taping Together,a workshop about the Golden Ratio, composing larger and larger special triangles from smaller ones, observing Fibonacci numbers in possibly unexpected ways. Below are masters of the triangles to print on card stock and then tape together like a jigsaw puzzle. Also some answers.
    • Acute golden isosceles triangles
    • Obtuse golden isosceles triangles
    • Numbers that will appear in the experiment

• Lectures at ProfMath 1998, Guimarães, Portugal
• Investigating the Geometry of Curves Dynamically (pdf form)
• Investigating the Geometry of Curves Dynamically (web page)

• List of Workshops and Lectures 1996-2003