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Math Forum @ Drexel: Introduction to
The Geometer's Sketchpad
Radnor High School Mathematics
Department
Thursday, March 14, 2002
This series of activities is designed to serve as an introduction to GSP
and how it might be used across the high school curriculum.
Constructing a Square
Adapted from the GSP Learning Guide
Learning about Sketchpad's freehand drawing and construction tools
Points "Lining Up" in the Plane
From Teaching Mathematics with GSP
Playing with the coordinate plane and developing intuition about slopes
and lines
The Slope Intercept Form of a Line
From Exploring Algebra with GSP
Graphing y = mx + b as a single line and then exploring whole families of
lines
Distances in an Equilateral Triangle
From Teaching Mathematics with GSP
Using Sketchpad to support conjecture and proof
Parabolas in Vertex Form
From Teaching Mathematics with GSP
Investigating parabolas of the form a(x - h)2 + k
Going Off on a Tangent
From Teaching Mathematics with GSP
Exploring the slope of the secant line of a function and its relation to
derivatives
The Geometer's Sketchpad Learning Guide, Teaching Mathematics
with The Geometer's Sketchpad, and Exploring Algebra with The
Geometer's Sketchpad are all copyright 2002 by Key Curriculum Press.
The first two are available as part of the software package, The
Geometer's Sketchpad, while the third is available separately from
Key Curriculum
Press.
Shelly Berman & Annie Fetter
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the presenters.
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