The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit

Download or read book The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit written by Mark J. Driscoll and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the popular Fostering Geometric Thinking, the Toolkit's 20 two-hour sessions provide a year's worth of math PD for middle and secondary teachers. Its facilitator and particpant-friendly sessions cover the key topics of Fostering Geometric Thinking: geometric properties, transformations and measurement. With the Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit, you'll lead teachers through hands-on opportunites to: develop new understandings of middle and secondary students' geometric thinking through a field-tested geometric habits-of-mind framework. Broaden and express their own geometric thinking by solving rich problems. Observe students' thinking and problem solving through in-the-classrom footage. Practice analyzing student work. Apply all they've learned in the sessions to engage students' thinking more effectively."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.