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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.

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The discussion raises several ways of explaining mathematical concepts to students.

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The best way students learn is through "dirtying their hands" projects that simulate real life. Therefore the teacher can come up with projects that will demonstrate to the students how projects in real life use geometry.

For example: You give a group of students a certain box that is a model of stadium. The also get ...

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