This article describes how students (ages 8-16) with hearing impairments can use geoboards to develop perceptions about squares, including: pattern recognition, characteristics of squares, concepts of area and perimeter, and generalizations of those ideas. A step-by-step lesson plan and a student worksheet are provided. (CR)

Image has always been important to the powerful. Their portraits have traditionally been designed to impress people with the gravity of the subject, but changing sensibilities and media have tended to introduce more intimacy and spontaneity. Creating visual and literary representations of people has proved to be an enduring human activity. This…