MCCMATH GeoGebra

Reflection: choose one or more of the following.

1) What’s something worthwhile you figured out how to do?

• I figured out how to do polar plots

• I figured out to change the formats on the displays.

• Jason) Still in the process of linking a slider to a graph.

• I figured out that it has gone through a LOT of improvements since the last time I used it.  It is much more intuitive now.  I know GSP well and it is now very similar!
• I remembered how to do a lot of things that I had learned on Geometer’s Sketchpad.  Like geometry even though I don’t teach the course.
• I was able to pull coordinates off of points
• I do not teach geometry so would not use this program very much. (Reply from Sue: I don’t teach geometry, but I love using geogebra for making nice graphs.)
• I found out the escape key gets me back to the pointer/selector.
• I got to spend some time working with the sliders.
• If you right click and drag you can move an object around

2) What’s something you want to figure out next?

• I want to get better at figuring out tables with graphs.  I have used TI so long that this does not seem easy at all.
• Jason )See question one.
• Using algebra to make transformations of objects
• Escher type tesselations
• Fractals that iterate (slider?)
• A colleague and I are planning to create a GeoGebra Institute in our school for middle and high school math teachers. However, we do not know how to start this idea. Suggestions???

• On the site we worked from there’s all the materials from a 2-day workshop with inservice K-12 teachers (mostly secondary), plus all the materials from our session will remain up.  Be glad to add you to the website editors if you want to add material.
• Connect long-distance with people who can field questions remotely.
• Find people from Twitter or the GeoGebra Institutes, for example the South Florida institute 

• Work more with the dynamic worksheets.
• I would like it to be very easy to shade in a region between two curves.

3) How can you imagine using this program to help you teach?

• When students comment they don’t have graphing calculators this will be a great tool.
• I could use this program to create figures to include in a handout or test.
• Using dynamic worksheets for students would be nice.
• I’ll use it for my Intermediate Algebra students to show the equations and graphs simultaneously.
• to generate nice pictures for a handout or exam.
• Jason) showing how co-efficients change the graph.
• I can see the possibilities of this program, but my brain wasn’t in the right state for exploring without a good jump start. I tried following some of the tutorials, but they didn’t help much - just got frustrated. I have two gals in my department that do alot with this program. I will work with them.
• Something that bothered me was the naming convention for sides as compared to the points that designated angles in a triangle. I must admit that it put me off from the beginning.
• I didn’t like that when you go to change more than one thing in the format it pops you back out of the window and you have to keep going back in over and over.  As an example to get rid of the grid and labels, you have to go in twice.
• Is there a way to show labels?  I was looking at a file created by someone else and wanted to know which points/lines were which.
• I want my students to create their own dynamic worksheets and share with classmates.
• For me, the possibilities are endless. (I’ve been saying that a lot this week, though)
• I have students do projects that involve graphing (such as linear programming) and they turn them in digitally.  This would produce a nice, neat graph & be fairly easy for students to use.
• Great graphs for tests and quizzes!