Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2011-11
From GeoGebra Manual
GeoGebra 4 is here!
Download GeoGebra 4 with many new features:
- GeoGebra: easily share your worksheets online
- GeoGebraPrim: special interface for younger students
- User interface: drag & drop, style bar, perspectives, accessibility
- New tools: data analysis, chart dialog, probability calculator, function inspector
- Copy & Paste, two Graphics views
- Inequalities and implicit equations
- Improved text tool, better equation displaying
- Filling options with hatching and images
- Animation of points on lines, dynamic limits for sliders & axes
- Buttons, input boxes, scripting
- Export to animated GIF
- 50 languages
GeoGebra Book & Community News
- Book on GeoGebra: Model-centered learning: Pathways to Mathematical Understanding Using GeoGebra, Lingguo Bu & Robert Schoen (Eds.), Sense Publisher
- Sign up for the Midwest GeoGebra Journal. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in Spring 2012.
GeoGebra in the Media
- GeoGebra International Journal of Romania The New Language For The Third Millenium Vol 2. Nr 1
- GeoGebra on Patagónico.net, Argentina
- Article in the Brazilian Nova Escola
- Article on GlobalResearch.ca using GeoGebra for analysis of the Flight Path: The Pentagon Attack on 9/11: A Refutation of the "Flyover Hypothesis"
- Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry (Sangaku problem) on divisbyzero with GeoGebra Applet
Tutorials & Materials
- y + : Interesting page with a lot of interactive exercices and fun
- okGeoGebra Applet Central by Guillermo Bautista
- GeoGebra Tutorials by Guillermo Bautista
- GeoGebra Tutorials by Malin Christersson
- Finding the joy in maths: exzuberant's blog
- Logarithmic Spiral? GeoGebra Applet
- Electrostatic Fields from Roman Chijner
- GeoGebra Applet: The danger of false positives by Dave Richeson
New GeoGebra Institutes
- GeoGebra Institute of Cyprus, Cyprus
- GeoGebra Institute of Tanjin, China
- GeoGebra Institute of Niger, Niger
- GeoGebra Institute of NCERT, India
- GeoGebra Institute of Siberia, Russia
- GeoGebra Institute of Kerala, India
- GeoGebra Institute of Cluj, Romania
- GeoGebra Institute of KNUE, Korea
- GeoGebra Institute of Johor Bahru Malaysia, Malaysia
- GeoGebra Institute of Pristina, Kosovo
- GeoGebra Institute of Montevideo, Uruguay
Future Events
See our Events Map & Calendar for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences as well as for proceedings of past conferences.
Nov
- 4 Nov 2011: GeoGebra Talk and Workshop in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
- 7-8 Nov 2011: Annual International Conference on Education & e-Learning (EeL 2011) in Singapore
- 8 Nov 2011: Presentation at The Spanish Royal Academy of Science in Madrid, Spain
- 9-12 Nov 2011: Activities of GeoGebra Institute of UNAM at National Conference for Math at University of Colima, Mexico
- 10-13 Nov 2011: AMATYC Annual Conference in Austin, Texas
- 11-12 Nov 2011: VTN Conference with GeoGebra Section in Budapest, Hungary
- 13-15 Nov 2011: First Latin American GeoGebra Conference in Sao Paolo, Brazil
- 14-16 Nov 2011: ICERI 2011 International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation in Madrid, Spain
- 15-17 Nov 2011: GeoGebra at CoSMEd 2011 in Penang, Malaysia
- 16-18 Nov 2011: The 7th International Congress on Mathematics Teaching Computer-Assisted (CIEMAC) including GeoGebra in Costa Rica
- 18 Nov 2011: GZ kompakt 2011 – Dynamische Geometrie, in Graz, Austria
Dec
- 7 Dec 2011: GeoGebra-Tag in Klagenfurt, Austria
- 14 Dec 2011: GeoGebra Seminar in Math House, Teheran, Iran
- 17-19 Dec 2011: Asian Technology Conference on Mathematics in Hsinchu, Taiwan
Other Conference Dates
- Deadline for Submission of Proposals for Asian Technology Conference on Mathematics in Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 16-18, 2011 is November 16, 2011
- Deadline for Submission of Proposals for Workshops and sharing groups to IPC chair for ICME 2012 is November 30, 2011
- Deadline for Paper submission deadline for Spring International Conference on Engineering Education in Xi'an, China, May 26-29, 2012 is December 9, 2011
- SIGMAA on RUME in Portland, Oregon, US, February 23-25, 2012
- TIME2012 (Technology and its Integration in Mathematics Education), July 10-14, 2012 in Tartu, Estonia, Contact: Josef Böhm