ABSTRACT

Build
Understandings through
Iterating
Learning and
Doing

This project is a classroom experience designed around the use of technology and manipulatives for middle school geometry to explore and understand the abstract manifestations of the concrete world. It is based on the belief that students build understandings through iterating, learning and doing. They need scaffolding to build upon prior knowledge, to build new understandings and to build physical objects representative of the abstract concepts that they learn. Using our project, students will be able to explore geometric relationships, formalize them and build empirical models.

To understand is to invent --- Piaget