Using the Geoboard

The geoboard provides a nicely constrained environment for mathematical exploration, and lends itself to many activities where students can discover, review, or apply important ideas in the K-12 curriculum. This page is a hopefully comprehensive list of links to geoboard activities on this site and on my blog.

All activities I link to below can be done on the CircleTrig Geoboard, a two-sided manipulative I designed. On one side, an 11 by 11 traditional geoboard. On the other side, a circle geoboard, with radius 10 cm, and a 360° protractor. It is available from Nasco. (However, most can be done on traditional 11 by 11 geoboards, or traditional circle geoboards.)

In my experience, "virtual manipulatives" do not work as well to generate student discussion, but they are useful if you don't have the physical version, and also to discuss solutions on the projector or to get images for use in worksheets or student reports. I created this Virtual Geoboard and Virtual Circle Geoboard for those uses, and for distance learning situations.

Compact introduction to the geoboard for teachers: one page | two pages