Date: May 29, 2006 10:15 AM
Author: Chan Yip-Cheung
Subject: Re: freeware geometry package sought

Hi, 

You may find the following software useful:

C.a.R. 
http://mathsrv.ku-eichstaett.de/MGF/homes/grothmann/java/zirkel/doc_en/

GeoGebra
http://www.geogebra.at/

yc

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Quoting Kate Mackrell <katemackrell@sympatico.ca>:

> I don't know if there is such a package with extensive support materials, 
> although there are quite a few freeware interactive geometry packages.
> 
> An alternative possibility to explore might be to look at the free online 
> geometry course offered at http://www.mathsnet.net/geometry/index.html. 
> This is a site highly regarded in the UK, written by Bryan Dye, a teacher. 
> Interactive geometry software is used throughout, but, as it's web-based, 
> you do not need to buy any software.  This would certainly get you going 
> with the geometry, after which you might find that you would need fewer 
> support materials.
> 
> Bryan's site in general has a wealth of material to explore 
> (www.mathsnet.net )
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Kate
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "michael fitzgerald" <mijofitz@yahoo.com.au>
> To: <approve@support1.mathforum.org>; 
> <geometry-software-dynamic@support1.mathforum.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 1:54 AM
> Subject: freeware geometry package sought
> 
> 
> > please excuse this if you've read it elsewhere recently;
> > i have put out feelers for help in other groups and, at least on this
> > particular request, have not turned up anything as yet, so i'm going
> > further afield with it;
> >
> >
> > i am a  pensioner living in a remote community with no bookstores and a
> > library insufficient to my current needs;
> >
> >
> > i thought someone could help me find the following:
> >
> >
> > a beginners guide to geometry:
> > -freeware;
> > -easy to use (have downloaded winplot, cinderella -trial version for a
> > week, and a few other things) but i can't work out how to use them, and
> > they seem to have quite limited help notes)
> > -interactive, enabling learner to create and transform shapes in basic
> > plane geometry
> > -solid tutorial component (sthg comparable to xyzalgebra, where the
> > learner has a graded set of exercises to complete and some instant
> > feedback about where s/he is going wrong/right)
> > -good notes to study and help master the subject systematically
> >
> >
> > i know this is a lot to ask; and as i say, i have been unable to find
> > anything remotely fitting these specs;
> >
> >
> > just thought someone might have used sthg resembling them;
> >
> >
> > thx for any help
> > rufus
> > 
> 
>