I’m trying something a bit new. For over a decade now I have spent time in my retirement developing In Time & Place(www.intimeandplace.org), collections of resources for topics in American history that incorporate GIS. They have been used over the years by tens of thousands of students, teachers, and interested persons - primarily in the US, but in western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Indonesia as well.
The release last year of ESRI’s GeoInquiries in math inspired me to remind myself that I had been a math teacher for thirty years in addition to teaching social studies and that one of my primary goals was to develop fluency in the language of mathematics. That meant not just developing student skill in the vocabulary and rules of math in the abstract, but developing the ability to apply in the context of real world problems. I developed numbers of units over the years to this end, many of which are geographically related. I plan on sharing these lessons on
