Table Tennis, Anyone? Using Ping-Pong To Teach the Coordinate Plane.

Foshay, John D.; Wells, Wendy L.

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ERIC Number: EJ557466

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Table Tennis, Anyone? Using Ping-Pong To Teach the Coordinate Plane.

Foshay, John D.; Wells, Wendy L.

Mathematics Teacher, v90 n9 p712-14 Dec 1997

Presents a ping-pong activity to teach the coordinate plane that puts students in a position to experience and relate to the coordinate plane in a manner that evokes their visual, spatial, and physical senses while linking the plane with a familiar object. (ASK)

Descriptors: Class Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics, Spatial Ability, Table Tennis, Thinking Skills, Trigonometry, Visualization

Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Practitioners; Teachers

Language: English

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