Geometric Reflections: Why Not a Flip?
Professor Dawn Teuscher recently published an article titled "Geometric Reflections: Why Not a Flip?" in the journal Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12. Dawn has answered a few questions about this article below: Who were your co-authors on this article? Shannon Dingman, Travis Olson, and Lisa Kasmer Who would you say is the target audience for this article? Middle grade (8th grade) teachers. What is the big problem you hoped to address with this article? Many students and teachers think about reflections visually and not mathematically. What are some of the key ideas in the article? Teachers need to bring out the mathematics behind reflections, specifically that reflections require a line of reflection that is in the middle of the two figures, but the line segments that connect corresponding points…