Teaching Math with Technology: Geogebra

Geogebra

Geogebra is an online math tool that has multiple different uses. I think it's a great site for focusing on geometry but it has many other uses as well! The feature I would utilize the most would be the graphing calculator and the "Geogebra Geometry".

For the graphing calculator feature, I would obviously use when we were learning about graphing. I would also use this for basic math so that students would not have to provide their own graphing calculator for class.

For the geometry feature, Geogebra allows students to create their own shape. I would like to use this as an "explore" for geometry. I would tell students to create a shape with... (four right angles, a polygon, a convex shape, a concave shape, etc.) Geogebra allows for the geometry section to be saved and printed. Students could print their work and I could use it as a formative assessment.

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