Kristen Taketa, Author at The Hechinger Report

Students in a new “Geometry in Construction” class at Eureka High School near St. Louis, Missouri, prop up a wall of the tiny house they built.

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Students apply geometry lessons to build tiny houses

by Kristen Taketa January 4, 2018March 30, 2020

EUREKA, Mo. — Every week in geometry class, more than two dozen Eureka High School students stow their backpacks and cellphones in their lockers and don hard hats and goggles. Instead of sitting at desks, they slice wood with power saws, measure wood to be cut and hammer together the skeleton of a new tiny […]