GeoGebra Institute:2010 Annual Report GI Norway
People
Chair
Certified trainers
- Arne Amdal
- Anne Bjørnestad
- Stig Eriksen
- Sigbjørn Hals
- Maria Johansen
- Jon Arild Jørgensen
- Tor Espen Kristensen
- Torger Johannes Nilsen
- Tommy Nordby
- Anders Sanne
- Susanne Stengrundet
- Bjørn Ove Seland Thue
- Hans-Petter Ulven
- Jostein Våge
Map with contact info to all the trainers
Training and Support
List of workshops, courses and presentations:
- January 12. Trondheim
- January 19. Aurskog Høland
- January 26. Skien
- February 5. Sunnhordaland
- February 9. Aurskog Høland
- February 9-10. Trondheim
- February 10. Lillesand
- February 18. Horten
- February 18. Randaberg
- March 3-4. Trondheim
- March 9. Skien
- March 11. Bergen
- March 22. Trondheim
- March 25. Randaberg
- April 7. Lillesand
- April 7. Lillestrøm
- April 9. Flesland
- April 13-14. Trondheim
- April 14. Hønefoss
- April 17. Trondheim
- April 20-21. Holmestrand
- April 23. Sogndal
- August 12-14. Reykjavik, Iceland (Several presentations)
- September 9-11. Salamanca, Spain (Several presentations)
- September 16. Trondheim
- October 1. Randaberg
- October 7. Skien
- October 20-22. Kocovce, Slovakia
- October 27. Skien
- October 28. Bergen
- October 28. Randaberg
- November 11. Bodø
- November 25. Lillehammer
- December 1-2. Trondheim (Several presentations)
- December 7. Harstad
- December 8. Buskerud
- December 12. Kristiansand
We are supporting teachers via the GeoGebra User Forum, and we answer a lot of e-mails from Norwegian teachers during the year. The Norwegian Institute has a Facebook group and a group in the social network Del&Bruk.
Development and Sharing
Hans Petter Ulven has been working with the GeoGebra development team:
- Maxima integration with GeoGebra CAS
- Jama and Apache
- Fit[<list of points>,<list of functions>]
- FitGrowth[<list of points>]
- SumSquaredErrors[<list of points>,function]
- Portabel GeoGebra
Research and Collaboration
- The GeoGebra Institute of Norway is an active member of the Nordic GeoGebra Network granted by Nordplus Horizontal.
- Partner in the VIT project (Visualization of Transformations) at the University of Bergen granted by Norway Opening Universities.
Master Thesis
Sigbjørn Hals’ Master thesis (2010) is based on a quantitative study of teachers working at grade 10 and in the mathematical courses 1P and/or 1T in upper secondary education in Norway. The aim of the research was to identify crucial factors influencing teachers’ decisions on whether or not to use mathematical software in their teaching. The study also investigated to what extent the dynamic software GeoGebra is used by teachers at grade 10 and 11, and how this software is used by teachers and students.
Data from this research shows that teachers, to a great extent, substantiate their pedagogical decisions from what they think is most advantageous to their students. Teachers emphasise what they regard as useful at tests and exams, but they also find the ability to solve everyday problems to be of vital importance.
If the central school authorities request a more frequent use of ICT for educational purposes, it is not sufficient to provide adequate equipment, software and post-experience courses. A very important supplementary factor is to let more teachers experience the professional benefits from using ICT. To make this happen, it may be necessary to change the existing examination structure.
Publications
Hals, S. (2010). IKT i matematikkopplæringen - Tidstjuv eller tryllemiddel? En studie av faktorer som kan påvirke bruken av IKT generelt og GeoGebra spesielt, hos lærere og elever på 10. og 11. årstrinn. (Master Thesis, University of Agder, Department of Mathematical Sciences, 2010.) Kristiansand: University of Agder, Norway.
