On route to Cartesian space, your spaceship is pulled onto Planet
Geometry; all of the mathematicians have left and the residents need
your help. Planet Geometry consists of 5 buildings in a walled plaza.
You travel from building to building in a small vehicle rather like a
tank. In one building you navigate through a maze, answering questions
in order to open doors and collecting gems. The many different levels
cover geometry topics such as: area, volume, congruence, and
supplementary and complementary angles. Questions generally have a
multiple-choice answer. Another building, the Geometry Academy, lets
you look up definitions as well as answer questions. The robot
construction building covers topics in coordinates (location on a
Cartesian grid) and transformations (slides, flips, and rotations). A
tessellation building also deals with transformations and patterns.
The GeoMovies building provides a work area for geometric
constructions, which can then be played back as a movie. You can also
roam the plaza itself. Among the trees are display areas where you can
"publish" the tessellations, geomovies, and robot dances you have
created.
