Future Projects

There is a Unit Circle Symmetries Program now, but I have started a new one from scratch. I want to ask more types of questions and get students really good at thinking on the unit circle. The one pictured in its current state is a great demo tool for teachers to use while discussing related concepts, but it is not yet a good tool for students to use on their own and it does not have an assessment built into it yet.

The Triangle Draw porgram is one that has been on my mind for a while, but is just beginning to come together. In this program a student puts in their given information for parts of a triangle and then those parts are created to scale. Then the student can move the pieces around and try to fit them together to make a triangle. It is my hope that by playing with these tools, students will learn how to use drawings to figure out when a triangle has no solutions, one solution, and two solutions. This program is also a good demo tool for teachers. It is not yet a SCO, but there are plans to make it one. Last semester, the first semester that this program was in existence, my students used it to discover when there will be one solution, two solutions, and no solutions for a specific side side angle case where only one angle and one adjacent side was given.

The template on this poster represents what I want to do with most of the SCOs that I have created. I would like each SCO to be broken up into a play part and an assessment part so students can have an area where they learn the concept and an area where they are tested on the concept. I also want to have a tab for further explanation, a tab for introductory information, and a help tab to answer common questions about the concepts and about the programs.

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