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lesson plans

The lessons listed below are a work in progress.  Please try them out and see how they work.  If you have ideas for how to improve them or if you want to submit your own lessons, please feel free to contact me.

 

Lesson One — Watching the Video

 

Lesson Two — Building Paper Platonic Solids

 

Lesson Three — Deriving Euler’s Formula

 

Lesson Four — Generalizing Euler’s Formula

 

Lesson Five — Proof?!

 

Lesson Six — Dual Pairs

 

Lesson Seven — Plato, Philosophy, and Displays

 

Lesson Eight — Research Reports

 

 

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