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

Orlando, Florida, March 16-19, 2006

Paper S101

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Exploring Transformations of the Plane via Geometer's Sketchpad

Bob Tilidetzke


Charleston Southern University
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Charleston, SC 29423-8087
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ABSTRACT

The first lab investigates how to precisely describe a single transformation that is equal to the composition of two given transformations. A second lab investigates when, if ever, the composition of a particular transformation with itself is equal to the identity map.

Keyword(s): geometry, Geometer's Sketchpad