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Pythagoras Meets Dynamic Software and a Digital Camera Summary
Armando M. [email protected] [email protected] Park High School
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Outline
• Some comments about GSP
• Getting Started: Some menus and commands
• Dragging: The Transformation Menu
• Repeating the same construction? No way! Use a Script
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Some Comments:
• Software is extremely friendly, powerful and self-contained, but not perfect.
• The power of the software 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 but they become static.
• Photos can be pasted in GSP docs.• Mathematical investigations are enticed.• Also good for analytic geometry.
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The tool palette
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The menus
The Construct Menu
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The Transform Menu
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Dragging is not a Drag
• Construct• Transform• Drag• The math is underneath
Construct a human like figure using the circles and segments. Select (ie, mark) a line of reflection, and use the transform menu to reflect your figure. Then drag some (or all) parts.
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• Repeating the same construction….
• No way! Use SCRIPTS
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Equilateral Triangle, Construction
• Using ruler and compass, construct an equilateral triangle.
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• Repeat the same construction in GSP
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• CREATING A SCRIPT
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The Custom Tool