Geometer's+Sketchpad

Geometer's Sketchpad     Geometer's Sketchpad is a computer program that empowers both students and teachers to go deeper in their knowledge of geometry. This program provides students with a visual way to look at math. It can be used at all levels (elementary - high school) and in classes from algebra to calculus. I enjoyed working with this program and learning the different animations I could use. From math problems to animated pictures, the possibilities with this program really are endless. Below you will find my work samples from this program. I worked through parts of an activity book titled "Geometry Actives for Middle School Students" which is designed to work along with Geometer's Sketchpad. Tour 1 and 2 are learning the basics. Animation 1, CrazyJack, Basketball, and Fish all taught me different skills needed for animating and formatting a moving picture. Finally I designed a project of my own to show my skills and what I had learned. The last program listed, LAX field, is a scaled model of a women's lacrosse field with an anim a ted picture of two lacrosse sticks playing catch. I really had a lot of fun with this project. The basics        Animation                  Final Project Challenge Problem-  After further investigations and practice with Geometer's Sketchpad I was able to recreate a "challenge problem" from a previous course. The math problem had to do with finding the area of a square made when a line is connected from a corner to a midpoint and another segment is drawn from a corner to the corner midpoint line. I used GSP to show that this not only works for squares but that the fractions of the whole area remains the same as you change the shape to a rhombus and the lengths and angles of each side. The link below will take you to this program. 