Cathy+Hager

I did not go into as much thought as Steve did in his screen-cast. I just keep moving the vertices until I felt the triangle had the largest area possible. I then concluded that the triangle is an isosceles. My students are low level and maybe I feel that they are low level, but are lazy and not interested in working toward understanding math. My hope through this course is to figure out a way or ways to make math more interesting while developing a stronger understanding. I teach Algebra 1 so I am interested in seeing topics I can use in my classes. When I taught in a private school I used to teach geometry with constructions, and wished that this was the case where I teach now. Most teachers just teach the theorems and concepts and expect the students to memorize. I don't know how to get past that, but I don't like teaching memorization. Maybe I can learn more from my fellow classmates in this course. Thanks Cathy

http://screencast.com/t/LL9HhOwt6L @http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cXV0rnltf

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