Geometrical Concepts from Constructions, Models, and Investigations Summary

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

More details on GSP as a tool.

  • Constructions with tools and construct menu
  • Locus and trace
  • Transformations
  • Graphing
  • Iterations

Technical Skills:

  • Tools, Multiple pages, JAVA, parameters,
  • Animation, color by parameter.

We adjourned to the Lab and worked with worksheets:

  • Examples of Traces and Loci
  • Midpoints of parallel segments in a triangle
  • Carpenter's square construction
  • Tangents
  • Tangent Tool

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