This month in Geometry: Class has been a potpourri of hands-on projects (the cardboard student mailbox set that went up last week, and we've begun work on designing wooden planters for the space outside the building); conventional problem-solving assignments (mostly focusing on angle measurements of various polygons, and this week a look at the Pythagorean Theorem); Geometric proofs (an important skill of detailing how it is we know what we know in math); Geometric constructions using the classical tools of this endeavor, the compass and straight edge; and group games and exercises that help to demonstrate concepts we've been looking at (these have included 'the best game ever', 'Geometry-Pictionary-Telephone-Extravaganza', and creating parallelograms, rectangles, and other Geometric entities with string, cardboard points, and whatever else students can get their hands on.)  In the upcoming weeks we'll be taking a closer look at circles, and then at the concept of area. 

-Brook