Interactive Polyhedra

This site http://peda.com/poly/ not only introduces you to many different solids, but lets you see how they are constructed. Just download and play.

For Platonic Solids only, click on this link.

Service Opportunities

Please check out the webpage http://seattlecentral.edu/faculty/alevy/service.htm to find Schools and After-School Programs. New on the list, and for whom the contact persons are students in the Math for Teachers courses this quarter: Meany Middle School and Bailey Gatzert Elementary.

Why we teach for conceptual understanding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs_z1M2yrLg

Mathematician as Elementary School Teacher

In an interesting article by a mathematician (Ron Ahroni), who took time off to teach in an elementary school, he tells about what he learned from this experience.http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/fall2005/aharoni.htm