The Geometer's Sketchpad 4
Dynamic Visualization Software for Exploring Mathematics
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With a scope that spans the mathematics curriculum from middle school to college, The Geometer's Sketchpad brings a powerful dimension to the study of mathematics. Sketchpad is a dynamic construction and exploration tool that enables students to explore and understand mathematics in ways that are simply not possible with traditional tools - or with other mathematics software programs.
Dynamic Visualization Is the Heart of the Program
With Sketchpad, students can construct an object and then explore its mathematical properties by dragging the object with the mouse. All mathematical relationships are preserved, allowing students to examine an entire set of similar cases in a matter of seconds, leading them by natural course to generalizations. Sketchpad encourages a process of discovery in which students first visualize and analyze a problem, and then make conjectures before attempting a proof.
Enhances Learning across the Mathematics Curriculum
Effective with students from grade 5 through college, Sketchpad brings its full dynamic power to the study of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus. And Sketchpad's dynamic, visual approach allows younger students to develop the concrete foundation they need to move ahead to more advanced levels of study.
Dynamic Mathematics Is Now More Powerful than Ever Before!
Take a look at what's new in Sketchpad version 4:
- The capability to define, combine, evaluate, graph, and differentiate functions makes Sketchpad the perfect tool for courses from algebra through calculus, as well as for geometry.
- Animation features are more powerful, more flexible, and easier to use.
- Multi-page Sketchbooks make it easy to assemble related activities and package them with activity-specific tools, to create electronic portfolios and presentations, to develop curriculum, and to design activities.
- Split/Merge and editing of calculations and functions allow easy modification of sketches.
- Styled text enhances professional appearance; mathematical text increases authenticity.
- User can integrate Web-based resources into Sketchpad activities and publish
live
Dynamic Geometry activities on the Web. - Fully supports Windows and Macintosh on the same CD-ROM.
- Easy-to-create Custom Tools extend Sketchpad's mathematics.
- Enhanced graphics allow full-color objects, text, and background for striking visual effect.
- Use of parametric color adds an
extra dimension
in any visualization, ranging from simple mathematical finger-painting activities at the early grades to surface plots at the higher grades. - Easier user interface gets beginners immediately up to speed.
- Selecting multiple objects is easier than ever.
Sketchpad gives you the tools to do the following:
- Accomplish Euclidean constructions with the drawing tools in the Toolbox and with commands in the Construct menu.
- Go beyond Euclidean constructions using commands in the Transform menu to construct translations, reflections, rotations, dilations, and iterations by fixed, computed, and dynamic quantities.
- Enter the realm of analytic geometry using the Graph menu to plot functions and work in rectangular or polar coordinate systems.
- Calculate and plot derivatives of functions; see derivatives both graphically and symbolically.
- Create animations that trace out sine waves and explore other trigonometric identities.
- Encapsulate complex constructions in single steps with user-designed Custom Tools.
Sketchpad Is Versatile and Easy to Use
Sketchpad is designed with an intuitive interface for ease of use, so your students will be focused on the activity, not the navigation. Students can work on independent explorations, and they can solve assigned problems collaboratively or alone. Teachers use Sketchpad to create worksheets, exams, and reports by exporting Sketchpad figures and measurements to spreadsheets, word processors, other drawing programs, and the Web.