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Carol,

You asked:

-> And, for those more experienced teacher, can you explain how you
-> spice the basic
-> constructions up.

I don't think I do anything to spice them up. Or at least I haven't in
the past. It has been very much "here's how you do this construction,
here's how you do this one, etc...." The regular geometry classes only
learned the very basic constructions (cong. segm & angles, bisecting
segm and angles, perpendiculars and paralles) and then we did  a few
applications based on those.

I did decide about two years ago, that the best way to correct
construction homework was for the students to get in small groups and
compare their constructions with each other.

The regular geometry course only spent about a week on constructions and
the honors course about twice that (since we did some more complicated
constructions).

Like I say, not very spiced up. Next year, however, we are planning to
incorporate the Mira into our classes. I think this will make
constuctions a lot more fun (at least I hope so) and they will not be so
difficult. And I think it will allow the non-honors students to do some
of the more complicated constructions.

Exactly what did you have in mind when you thought of "spicing up"
constuctions?

Sheila
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