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You are part of a panel of parents, teachers, and administrators working to revise the geometry curriculum for the local high school. On tonight's agenda, you will be brainstorming creative ways to teach surface area and volume. The teachers are especially interested in methods which will help the students connect geometry to life in the "real world" because student motivation has sometimes been lacking in this course. What suggestions do you make to the panel during your discussion? Why do you think students would benefit from this idea being used in the classroom? Explain your idea in at least two paragraphs. Include references.

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When nurtured by a rich, exploratory-based environment that encourages exploration and problem solving, children gain remarkable mathematical insights regarding the mensuration topics. I will make following suggestions:

1. Technology can help with the number crunching, creating more time for discourse in the classroom, students might use a graphing calculator to create the chart, enter formulas to find the needed values, and graph the numbers. Other tools and ...

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