GeoGebra

Markus Hohenwarter receiving the Tech Award in Education for GeoGebra

GeoGebra has just received the prestigious Tech Award

By Bill Lombard on 1 December, 2009

More kudos for GeoGebra; I continue to share this wonderful open-source software program with others and watch them experience the joy as they see mathematics come alive with power and creativity. My students experience this on a regular basis. From the Tech Awards website: http://techawards.org/ “The Tech Awards program inspires global engagement in applying technology [...]

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Algebra Activities that Reach the Kids and Teach the Standards

Algebra Activities that Reach the Kids and Teach the Standards

By Bill Lombard on 5 November, 2009

I will be presenting a session at the California Math Council’s conference in southern California on 7 November, 2009 with the title of this blog article. I’ve included a link below to the conference presentation. This session will cover several pedagogical topics that have made my students successful learners, including Conceptual Layering, as well as [...]

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First North American GeoGebra Conference – Ithaca, New York

First North American GeoGebra Conference – Ithaca, New York

By Bill Lombard on 4 October, 2009

The First North American GeoGebra Conference will be held 27-28 July, 2010 at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. I’ve been honored to be a part of the Scientific Committee for this conference. This committee has the responsibility of reviewing conference proposals. I’m looking forward to an interesting experience seeing how others use the powerful [...]

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GeoGebra Has New Features – Even More of a Good Thing

By Bill Lombard on 12 August, 2009

GeoGebra, the award-winning free software that math teachers are raving about, now has even more neat features: A Spreadsheet – numbers in a different view! Automatic animation – your graphs come to life! Statistics functions and graphs! Matrix and complex number support! . . . and more! Find out about all the details in the [...]

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GeoGebra Projects – a Tool for Learning & Teaching Algebra – Parabolas

GeoGebra Projects – a Tool for Learning & Teaching Algebra – Parabolas

By Bill Lombard on 28 February, 2009

Projects are a great way for students to demonstrate their understanding of mathematics in a colorful, artistic way. When using GeoGebra, the open-source Geometry-Algebra-Graphing software, their projects rise to a new height. Many of these projects are as good as those you run across on the internet, and many can be used as instructional aids [...]

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CMC-S (Palm Springs) and CMC-N (Asilomar) GeoGebra Updates

By Bill Lombard on 26 November, 2008

My session on GeoGebra at the CMC-S Palm Springs conference was well attended. The room seated 120, and CMC staff had to turn away at the door many folks who wanted to see this great open-source software. I was pleased to be able to share a little of the story behind GeoGebra, its creator Markus [...]

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California Math Council – Southern Section Conference, Palm Springs

By Bill Lombard on 26 October, 2008

The California Math Council – Southern Section Conference, Palm Springs math conference will be held this year on November 7-8, 2008 at the Palm Springs Convention Center. As one of the Featured Speakers, I’ll be presenting two sessions, one on Friday and one on Saturday. These sessions cover two of the topics I’m currently focused [...]

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