Using spatial reasoning for creative design: Merging engineering and mathematics practices

D. Craig Schroeder; Carl W. Lee; Margaret J. Mohr-Schroeder

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch014

Using spatial reasoning for creative design: Merging engineering and mathematics practices

D. Craig Schroeder, Carl W. Lee, Margaret J. Mohr-Schroeder

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Abstract

With the adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and the Next Generation Science Standards, teachers are being called upon now more than ever before to regularly utilize and incorporate mathematics, science, and engineering practices in order to deepen students' understanding of the content they are learning, make broader connections to the STEM disciplines, and to ultimately help to strengthen the STEM pipeline. This chapter describes how teachers can use SketchUp as a tool to implement the practices through creative design into their own classrooms. The premise and basics of SketchUp are shared as well as a rich creative design project that develops spatial reasoning in middle grades students.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies
Pages	306-321
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781466682061
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch014
State	Published - Mar 31 2015

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General Arts and Humanities

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