Don't know about you, but I fell prey to my sophomore-year geometry class like a wayward monkey to the mighty boa. As I tried vainly to memorize theorems, geometry slowly, relentlessly squeezed the life out of me. No such fate for the Seattle-area students in Eeva Reeder's geometry class, who learned their theories and proofs while applying geometry to real-world assignments in design and architecture. Or for the high school boys and girls enrolled in San Francisco's Build SF Institute, which places math and fine arts students in intern positions at downtown architecture firms. And certainly not for the juniors and seniors who create city-planning proposals for UrbanPlan, a unique 15-hour classroom-based study program produced by the Urban Land Institute, in Washington, DC.

Click through and discover the world of good a little project learning can do.

-- David Markus
Editorial Director
https://www.edutopia.org/



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