ICTCM-14 abstract

Electronic Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

CONTRIBUTED PAPER: 14-C8

Discovering Geometry Using Geometer’s Sketchpad

Cheryl Olsen
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Shippensburg University
Shippensburg, PA 17257
E-mail: clolse@ship.edu

ABSTRACT

Geometer’s Sketchpad is an easy-to-use dynamic construction and exploration tool for use in a variety of classes. Using Sketchpad, students discover patterns, formulate conjectures, and verify their conjectures by creating small examples. Students then generalize their justifications to prove a geometric relationship. This paper presents two examples of geometric explorations using Sketchpad.

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