Electronic Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Chicago, Illinois, October 30-November 2, 2003

Paper S016

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The Impact of Dynamic Geometry Software as a Didactical Tool

Antonio R. Quesada


Department of Theoretical and Applied Mathematics
The University of Akron
Akron, OH 44325-4002
USA


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ABSTRACT

In this note we illustrate via two examples basic capabilities of Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS) as a tool for teaching and learning geometry; in particular, the DGS potential to develop activities using the Inquiry-Based (I-B) approach and to promote discovery via the 'explore-discover-conjecture-test-prove' model. In addition we comment on the impact of DGS both in our Concepts of Geometry as well as in the in-services we provide.

Keyword(s): geometry, Cabri