Connecting Research to Teaching: Geometry Classroom Pictures: What's Developing?

Abstract

In the NCTM's curriculum standards, teachers find a clear vision of mathematics classrooms as rich environments where students can explore, conjecture, reason logically, and connect mathematics with the real world. The Standards’ vision assumes that teachers will use strategies that promote students’ active participation in the learning process. For geometry, especially, those strategies should include activities that foster the interplay of deductive and inductive reasoning (NCTM 1989).