Impact of GeoGebra in Math Teacher’s Professional Development
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Impact of GeoGebra in Math Teacher’s Professional
Development
Ana Escuder Joseph Furner
Florida Atlantic UniversityBoca Raton, Florida
Twenty-Third AnnualInternational Conference on
Technology in Collegiate MathematicsDenver, ColoradoMarch 19, 2011
Warm-up/ThinkerA square barn measures 14 meters on each side. A goat is tethered outside by a rope that is attached to one corner of the barn:a) Suppose that the length of the rope is 8 meters. On
how many square meters of land is the goat able to graze? What shape is formed?
b) Suppose that the rope is made twice as long as in part a. On how many square meters of land is the goat now able to graze?
c) Lastly, an addition to the barn was built making it rectangular with dimensions 14 meters by 20 meters and extended the length of the rope to 24 meters, on how many square meters of land is the goat now able to graze?
CRA• Concrete – Mathematical (physical)
Model
• Representational – Visual Model
• Abstract – Symbolic Representation
Drawing of the situation
A goat and a Barn
Standards Mapped Graduate Education and Mentoring
Program for Middle Grades
• Funded in 2004 • Partnership: FAU and Broward County
Public Schools• Goal: eliminate gaps in content and
pedagogy between the university-level approach to a teacher’s math and science preparation and the daily requirements of a diverse standards-driven classroom.
Method• 8 semester long courses• Standards based• Master’s degree• Incorporating math content,
technology, and pedagogy
Standards Mapped
Standards-based Connections
Mental Models• Integration of prior knowledge and
text information to construct an understanding of the situation described in the text (Reed, 2007)
• Mental model – dynamic
• Mathematical model – static
Cognitive complexity of Mathematics
• Connection of mathematical concepts. • Solidified by their multiple representations and
the connections among the multiple representations (Goldin, 2003).
• Mathematical representations are ultimately cultural artifacts, indicative of the technological developments of society (Kaput, Hegedus, & Lesh, 2007).
• As technology changes, it also changes what we do and what we can do as well as the way we handle traditional instructional practices (Milrad, Spector, & Davidsen, 2003).
www.GeoGebra.org• Free, multi-platform, open-source
dynamic mathematics software.• Combines dynamic geometry, algebra,
calculus, and spreadsheet features• Large international user and developer
community with users from 190 countries.
• Markus Hohenwarter and FAU
Strand A
Number Sense
Continued Fractions135
2 1
11
112
Notation[2;1,1,2]
Euclidean Algorithm15 = 1 * 11 + 411 = 2 * 4 + 3 4 = 1 * 3 + 1 3 = 3 * 1 + 0
1511
11
2 1
113
Where is the gcd in the rectangle?
TheoremA number is rational if
and only if it can be
expressed as a finite continued fraction
11
1 1
113
Lagrange TheoremAn irrational represents the positive solution of a quadratic equation if and only if its continued fraction expansion is eventually periodic.
x = [1; 1, 1, 1, …]
Algorithmic Similarity x2 +x- 1=0
x2 +x=1 x(x+1)=1
x= 1
1+x
x= 11+ 1
1+x
x= 11+ 1
1+ 11+ 1
1+x
Strand B
Measurement
Mirrors and Images
Strand C Geometry
A goat and a Barn Extended
Strand DAlgebraic Thinking
Baravelle Spirals
Area & Length
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81
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21
21
41
81
161
Strand EData
Analysis and
Probability
Buffon’s Needle
Impact• Raised enthusiasm and changed teachers’ habits
• Provided effective pedagogical model for teachers. Modeling the Standards Modeling effective pedagogy Growth in their ability to use technology with instruction
• Tendency of teachers to incorporate technology in their classroom jumped from 27.8 percent to 64.3 percent.
• Large data set suggested a connection between the mathematical skills and activities the project promoted and student achievement.
• Changes in the district
More resources• GeoGebra Wiki
http://www.geogebra.org/en/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• Florida GeoGebra Chapterhttp://floridageogebra.wikispaces.com/
• Matharoundus.comhttp://matharoundus.com/