Here at Last: 78 Ways to Use a Powerful Teaching Tool to
Fascinate and Challenge Your Students!
Use manipulatives to motivate students and spark in-depth
discussions about important geometry ideas!
This exciting collection of 78 blackline-master activities
uses manipulatives in a puzzle-like way to draw students in
and motivate them to pursue ideas in depth. Geometry Labs provides
concrete experiences that appeal to a range of abilities and
learning styles, promoting and developing problem-solving and
reasoning skills.
You will not find a more comprehensive source of ways to use
a variety of manipulatives in secondary-level mathematics!
Activities to Complement and Enrich Your Curriculum
Use the lessons in Geometry Labs as previews, reviews,
or extensions of your curriculum, whether you teach high school
geometry, integrated math, middle school, or even trigonometry.
The activities address such key topics as angles, polygons,
symmetry, tiling, area, volume, similarity, trigonometry, and
more.
Based on Classroom Experience
Geometry Labs author and teacher Henri Picciotto
is noted for his materials on using manipulatives at all levels,
an interest that spans more than 25 years' teaching experience.
The
Ultimate Manipulatives Kit for the Secondary Math Classroom
We have gathered all of the manipulatives needed to carry
out the activities in Geometry Labs in our extensive,
sturdy kit (sold separately). The kit, which will accommodate
eight groups of four students each, contains all the must-have
manipulatives for any high school or middle school math classroom,
including the following:
- 1,000 pattern blocks in six colors
- 16 special Geometry Labs Drawing Templates with
rulers and protractors
- 16 unique double-sided geoboards with CircleTrig™ Geoboard design
on one side and 11-peg x 11-peg square on the other side
- One clear, double-sided CircleTrig Geoboard for
the overhead projector
- Rubber bands
- 1,000 interlocking centimeter cubes in ten colors
- 32 tangram sets in four colors
- 32 4"x 6" mirrors
You will not find a more comprehensive kit of high-quality
manipulatives at a better price.
