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Sketchup can be very useful in the math classroom. It can be used, like I did, for students to do problems from. It would be useful to use sketchup, as opposed to not having any visual, because students may understand better. Also, by using sketchup, teachers are more likely to connect the math with real life. Using sketchup would also be fun for students. They could build some type of figure (i.e. a building, a town, a water tower, etc) and make their own word problems to go along with the picture. Sketchup can also be used with geometry. A teacher could use it to help students understand shapes better and how measurements are found. It is a great tool to use!

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Network Theory. It is an exploratory lesson. Grades 5-12 (you can make it more difficult as you get higher up in grade). It covers: Network theory, Geometry, Spatial reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Problem solving. The instructional approach is to have the students explore and figure things out on their own. The students attempt to solve puzzles and tracing paths between places. By having the students attempt these, they will be able to figure out all the rules and tricks for themselves. I think this lesson is great. Instead of just telling students, "paths can only be drawn if..." and "starting and ending at which vertices...". They will discover all this on their own and it should be fun! A weakness could be that students will not totally understand what they are doing. But if that happens, the teacher or another student could explain and demonstrate and example of drawing the paths. I think it would be appropriate for my future math class. I know I would have enjoyed working through this as a student and would have probably understood the processes better. I'm not sure what could make it better. I think it's great! []

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