NATCHEZ &045; Although the summer is in full swing, the learning process has not ended.

Nine Natchez-Adams County teachers, ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade, are in classes for three days, from Tuesday through Thursday, learning about geometry. The teachers are learning about a new way to teach geometry, to make it &uot;fun and easy.&uot;

&uot;We are looking for an easy way so all students could be more successful at geometry,&uot; Peg Cannon, inventor of GeoLeg.

GeoLeg, a four-in-one geometry tool, is what the teachers are learning to use, along with activities and lessons they can take back to their classrooms form the supplemental guide that comes with the new tool.

The GeoLeg, developed six years ago, is a device that is a cross between a protractor and a compass, used to measure and draw.

Cannon said she goes into school districts and gives these classes all over the country.

The plastic device looks like two rulers held together by a circle that acts as a hinge for the GeoLeg. The long sides can be rotated to any angle. Also, the GeoLegs can be hooked onto other GeoLegs to make shapes like triangles, squares and parallelograms.

The teachers find the system to be very helpful. Cannon gave the teachers an assignment at lunch to look around them and see the geometry in the world.

Darlene Pickett, a sixth-grade teacher at McLaurin Elementary School, said she saw the whole world in geometry.

&uot;I went out and saw nothing but angles,&uot; Pickett said. &uot;As I was driving home, all these things were popping out at me.&uot;

The teachers agreed this assignment showed them geometry is used everyday.

&uot;It’s not abstract anymore,&uot; Cannon said.

The reason the school district is investing in this new way to teach geometry is geometry is being stressed on more standardized tests.

Cannon said standardized tests are about one-third geometry through every grade level.

Some of these teachers will now serve as lead consultants to go back to their schools and teach other math teachers how to use the system.

&uot;I think it would be easy to take back to the teachers,&uot; Letha Thomas, fourth grade teacher at Morgantown Elementary, said. &uot;It’s easy, innovative, colorful and fun.&uot;