LearningDesign:Teaching Transformation Geometry in Secondary Schools

A Resource Package to Facilitate Teaching/Learning "Transformation Geometry in Secondary Schools
Teachers in Secondary Schools adopt various teaching strategies when teaching this topic. Some of them use concrete objects to build the concepts. Some others design activities(Eg:Drawing, Paper folding and cutting etc)for students to grasp the concepts. If we are going to use WikiEducator to facilitate teaching of this topic the activities need to be interactive. For example we can design Java applets to enable the students to interact with these applets and discover different concepts behind each transformation. Then we can design activities and worksheets to acompany these applets in order to guide the students to discover expected attributes of each transformation by themselves. Teachers will be able to act as facilitators and guide their students to use these on-line activities to construct their own knowledge.

Who are the learners/users/target audience?
This resource is mainly for the students in Secondary schools (Year 7 to Year 11). Mathematics teachers who are teaching in these classes will be able to make use of this resource as a teaching aid to facilitate learning. If the teachers can guide their students to select the appropriate area of the topic relevant to their level, it will be more effective.

What are the particular needs of this group? Often teachers use chalk and board to teach these topics and adhere to the text books. Some students are unable to grasp the concepts in abstract. Students need to interact with the objects to understand the real meaning of some concepts.

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How are learners going to communicate with each other and ‘teachers’ while they work through the resource?

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Learning resources
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