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

New Orleans, Louisiana, October 28-31, 2004

Paper S098

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, Edited by Joanne Foster, ISBN 0-321-43792-6, Copyright (C) 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Designing Learning Activities With Dynamic Geometry And Computer Algebra Systems: The Ellipse Case

Ana Guadalupe Del Castillo Bojorquez


Universidad de Sonora
CONACYT
Mexico

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ABSTRACT

The study of the ellipse through different representations is approached, taking advantage of the different capabilities from the symbolic calculator: dynamic geometry, computer algebra system, graphs, tables, programming, thus creating means in which the students can explore, conjecture, analyze, verify ideas, etc.

Keyword(s): geometry, computer algebra systems