OMLI Geometry Team

The Oregon Mathematics Leadership Institute (OMLI) is a Math and Science Partnership aimed at increasing mathematics achievement of students in partner K–12 schools through the creation of sustainable leadership capacity. OMLI's 3-week summer institute offers both content and leadership courses for in-service teachers. OMLI is supported in part by National Science Foundation grant EHR–0412553 and by the Oregon Department of Education under ESEA Title II-B.

The OMLI Geometry Team designed and taught one of the content courses, called Comparing Geometries, which uses non-Euclidean geometry to enhance teachers' understanding of Euclidean geometry. This course was offered at the OMLI summer institutes from 2005–2007; graduate credit was available through Oregon State University. Our most recent course syllabus can be found here.

The OMLI Geometry Team consists of:

• David Damcke
• Tevian Dray
• Maria Fung
• Dianne Hart
• Lyn Riverstone

Talks:

• Using Non-Euclidean Geometry to Teach Euclidean Geometry to K–12 Teachers,
     David Damcke, Tevian Dray, Maria Fung, Dianne Hart, & Lyn Riverstone, Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2007.
• Using Protocols and Open-Ended Tasks to Promote Student Mathematical Discourse,
     Lyn Riverstone & Maria Fung, ORMATYC, 2007.   (handout)
• Exploring Concepts of Euclidean Geometry Through Comparison with Spherical and Taxicab Geometries,
     David Damcke, Tevian Dray, Maria Fung, Dianne Hart, & Lyn Riverstone, Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2008.
• Math Faculty as Partners in Team Teaching a Non-Euclidean Geometry,
     Maria Fung, Tevian Dray, David Damcke, Dianne Hart, & Lyn Riverstone, Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2009.

Papers:

• Dare to Compare?,
     David Damcke, Tevian Dray, Maria Fung, Dianne Hart, & Lyn Riverstone, TOMT, May/June 2008, 8–10.
• Using Non-Euclidean Geometry to Teach Euclidean Geometry to K–12 Teachers,
     David Damcke, Tevian Dray, Maria Fung, Dianne Hart, & Lyn Riverstone.
• Care to Compare: Eliciting Mathematics Discourse in a Professional Development Geometry Course for K–12 Teachers,
     Maria Fung, David Damcke, Dianne Hart, Lyn Riverstone, and Tevian Dray, Montana Mathematics Enthusiast Monograph Series in Mathematics Education, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, 2009, pp. 199–213.

Abstracts:

• Using non-Euclidean geometry to teach Euclidean geometry to K–12 teachers,
     David Damcke, Tevian Dray, Maria Fung, Dianne Hart, and Lyn Riverstone, Abstracts Amer. Math. Soc. 28, 350 (2007).
• Exploring Concepts of Euclidean Geometry Through Comparison with Spherical and Taxicab Geometries,
     Maria G. Fung, Tevian Dray, David Damcke, Lyn Riverstone, and Dianne Hart, Abstracts Amer. Math. Soc. 29, 276-277 (2008).
• Math Faculty as Partners in Team Teaching a Non-Euclidean Geometry Course for K–12 Teachers,
     Maria G. Fung, Tevian Dray, David Damcke, Lyn Riverstone, and Dianne Hart, Abstracts Amer. Math. Soc. 30, 337 (2009).

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