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Sixteen-year-old Joseph and his teammate, Kim, were in the process of determining a diagonal length on the robot competition field. After consulting the competition manual and measuring several side lengths, Joseph realized that he might need to use some geometric principles to calculate the missing diagonal length. It was at this point that he called across the room to Ms. Miller, the team advisor, who was also a math teacher in the high school, indicating that, “We need geometry!”
Ms. Miller, we need geometry!
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Work on this project and the analysis for this chapter come from the entire research team, which includes the authors, Elaine Simon, Christine Massey, Lynda Ginsburg, and Stefan Grudza. This chapter describes work conducted as part of MetroMath, supported in part by the National Science Foundation (Grant ESI-0333753). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Baker, J.Y., Remillard, J.T., Lim, V. (2013). Examining Youth’s Mathematics Practices in an After-School Robotics Team. In: Bevan, B., Bell, P., Stevens, R., Razfar, A. (eds) LOST Opportunities. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4304-5_15
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