What is FGT?

Fostering Geometric Thinking in the Middle Grades (FGT) is a four-year project to develop a research-based professional development curriculum focused on geometric thinking, which will serve teachers in grades 5 through 10. The work includes materials development, professional development design, and research on geometric thinking and on the effectiveness of the resulting professional development materials.

A guiding premise at the core of this project is that good mathematics teaching begins with understanding how mathematics is learned. Building on the lessons learned from EDC’s Fostering Algebraic Thinking Toolkit, our intent is to support attention to students’ ways of thinking about important ideas in geometry.

We are offering a Fostering Geometric Thinking facilitator institute in the summer of 2008 at EDC. Click here for more information.