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On November 15th, subscribers to our Projects of the Month will be getting a fantastic batch of projects! If you haven't signed up, what are you waiting for? You get 36 projects (3 per month for 12 months) for $36 - that's $1 per project...
Design competitions are a great way to exercise and show off your modeling skills...
This is a little delayed, but I visited the Didax booth last week at NCTM, and found some cool toys...
I'm in beautiful Boston, MA today and tomorrow, for the regional meeting of NCTM. This morning, Jon Choate and I gave a talk on 3D geometry with Google SketchUp. We had one of the larger conference rooms (about 300 capacity), and it was standing room only...
I got this model from a teacher named June Still-Flores, who created these triangular Escher tiles after working through one of our September Projects of the Month.Here's part of what June wrote:I want to thank you for all the information you have about Sketch up...
In addition to writing about useful plugins (see here, here, and here), I also like to write about features within SketchUp itself that most people don't know about...
SketchUp + Escher = Skescher?Here's my October project for the Math Forum: creating Escher tiles based on a square. This project appeals to math students, but also kids in art or graphic design classes...
On October 15th, subscribers to our Projects of the Month will be getting their second batch of projects...
Mike Valler works with the Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford, and has been showing his kids how to use SketchUp. Here is the design the kids came up with to fill the space in their new teen center...
Willy Felton is a teacher who is using my ModelMetricks and GeomeTricks materials with his students...
A reader named Walter Page sent me an example of what he recently created with Joint Push Pull, a free SketchUp plugin I described last week...
I got an email from a tech-ed teacher named "Mrs. V," who told me:I tried your poster lesson for my VERY FIRST try at SketchUp. (Just myself, as a teacher/learner, not with a class.) I attached the drawing...
Here's an email I recently got from a teacher:After teaching Geometry for years I have been looking for a way for my students to play with the shapes that are so central to the subject matter...
I'm trying about once a month to try out and write about a popular SketchUp plug-in. Previous examples are Component Spray and Draw Metal.This time the featured plug-in is called Joint Push Pull...
Thanks to Jon Choate, my co-author on the GeomeTricks books, SketchUp now has its own page on Drexel University's Math Forum...
