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EXPLORINGGEOMETER’S SKETCHPAD
Robbie Klink
Lets make life easier…
• Who wants to use a piece of paper to create perfect shapes these days.
• Kids love using technology.
What is Geometers Sketchpad?
• The Geometer's Sketchpad is a dynamic construction, demonstration, and exploration tool that adds a powerful dimension to the study of mathematics. You and your students can use this software program to build and investigate mathematical models, objects, figures, diagrams, and graphs.
Visualize Mathematics
• GSP offers students a visual environment to explore mathematical concepts.– Hypothesize– Discover– Interact– Observe– Measure– Draw
Benefits of using Geometer’s Sketchpad
• Manipulation can be done effortlessly without the need for time consuming redraws!
• Technology allows the students to become more interactive in their lessons!
• Technology skills will enhance the student's motivation and willingness to explore new concepts!
• Work can be saved, printed, and/or edited later as newer concepts emerge!
Benefits to using Geometers Sketchpad in your classroom.
• Keeps children interested in math.• Incorporates different teaching techniques
into the classroom.• Can create lessons helping students to
discover things about geometry independently.
Purchasing Geometers Sketchpad
• $29.95 for a single student package. (at home use)
• The school bundle: Now 50% off the regular price. Install Sketchpad on school computers at 50% off regular license price. Get Sketchpad Lesson Link for three years—the third year is free!
Introduction to Geometers Sketchpad
Lets take a look the program itself.
Teacher Demonstration
• Teachers can demonstrate concepts to a class at large.
• Easy to utilize the thousands of pre=made files to save time.
• Children can follow along with pre-made worksheets or just observe.– Teacher Demonstration on GSP
Student discovery
• Students create their own files and save them.• Step-by-step direction sheets• Saved files can be used in the future for
further investigation.
Geometers sketchpad using a whiteboard
• Finger movement
• Shows a bigger picture for a whole class view
• Can run teacher lessons using this.
• Great visual learning aid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82IdcgZ--hs&feature=related
TI-83/84
• Can be downloaded to calculators so that you do not need computers to access geometers sketchpad.
Resources
• Getting Started Tutorials. KCP Technologies, 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. <http://learningcenter.dynamicgeometry.com/x13.xml>.
• Key Curriculum Press The Geometers Sketchpad 5.00. 2010. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. <http://www.shareseeking.com/Key-Curriculum-Press-The-Geometers-Sketchpad-5-00_451080.html>.
• "The Uses of Geometer's Sketchpad 4 - Demo Powerpoint Presentation." Math Bits High School Math Resources. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. <http://mathbits.com/mathbits/gsp/WebPPTGSP4.html>.
• Welcome to The Geometer's Sketchpad® Resource Center. KCP Technologies, 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2010. <http://www.dynamicgeometry.com/>.