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USING GEOMETER’S USING GEOMETER’S SKETCHPAD TO INCREASE SKETCHPAD TO INCREASE
STUDENT COMPREHENSIONSTUDENT COMPREHENSIONFernando Mota Rodriguez
Buena Park High [email protected]
Maria Saldivar FernandezBuena Park High School
Isaura DeLeonBuena Park High School
Presented OCMCMarch 9, 2007
http://taselm.fullerton.eduhttp://taselm.fullerton.edu
Outline of the Presentation
• Some comments about GSP• Getting Started: Some menus and
commands• Transform Menu and Scripts• Some Investigations• Some Examples from Class• Questions and Conclusions
Some Comments about GSP:• GSP is extremely friendly, powerful and self-
contained, but not perfect.• The power of GSP lies on the ability to
preserve the properties of Euclidean constructions when figures are dragged.
• Strong tool for pedagogical purposes.• Constructions can be copied and pasted in
other program documents (like a word processor) but they become static.
• Photos can be pasted in GSP docs.• Mathematical investigations are enticed.• Also good for analytic geometry.
Dragging is not a Drag
• Construct• Transform• Drag• The math is underneath
CONSTRUCT a human-like figure using circles and segments. CONSTRUCT and SELECT (i.e., “MARK”) a line of reflection, and USE the transform menu to reflect your figure. Then DRAG some (or all) parts. INVESTIGATE!
Using an iterative tool: A Script for an Equilateral Triangle
• CONSTRUCT segment AB• CONSTRUCT a circle with center at A and
radius AB.• CONSTRUCT a circle with center at B and
radius AB.• CONSTRUCT the intersection of two
circles. Label it C.• CONSTRUCT segments AC and BC.• HIDE auxiliary circles
The Custom Tool
TO CREATE A SCRIPT FOR THE TRIANGLE:
1) SELECT the vertices and sides of the triangle
2) OPEN the custom tool and select NEW
3) NAME the script
TO CREATE A MIDSEGMENT OF EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE:
1) SELECT one side of the triangle2) Go to CONSTRUCT menu and select
MIDPOINT3) Repeat the same process for another
side of the triangle
INVESTIGATIONS:
1) Lets measure the midsegment and the side of the triangle.
2) What is the relationship of the base of the triangle and the midsegment?
3) Does it hold for all sides of the triangle and their corresponding midsegment.
INVESTIGATIONS:1) Draw the other two midsegments of
the triangle.2) How many triangles do you see?3) Are there any relationships among
the inscribed triangles? Areas? Perimeters?
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INVESTIGATIONS:1) Construct a hexagon using the
equilateral triangle script.
2) Are there any relationships among the area of one equilateral triangle and the area of the hexagon?
YES!!YES!!
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