Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2011-08
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Community News
- Sign up for the Midwest GeoGebra Journal. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in Spring 2012.
- Encourage your students to take part in our Midsummer Photo Contest or send a nice video to our Student Video Contest!
Development News
GeoGebra 4 Beta News
- Installers and Portable versions available for testing (Windows, Mac, Linux)
- Tessellation using Copy & Paste and the new Vector Polygon Tool
- New popup to replace the autocomplete in the Input Bar
- You can now type x(x+1) and a(x+1) without a space / *
- New Tools "Create List", "Complex Number", "Vector Polygon"
- Buttons, Input Boxes, Checkboxes, Sliders, Images, Polygons, Texts snap to grid when dragged
- Textfield Tool renamed to "Input Box"
- Implicit Curve improvements (including allowing point on)
- New command Implicit Curve <f(x,y)>
- New command Identity <Number>
- MathPiper now totally replaced by MPReduce (faster, more stable)
- Slider Tool moved
- List1(n) syntax disabled
GeoGebra in the Media
- The German Netzwelt.de tested GeoGebra
- GeoGebra Challenge in the Spanish ElPais for the 100th Anversary of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society
- New Teacher Award in Taiwan
- GeoGebra 4 Teachers at Math Hombre
Tutorials & Materials
- Overview of the new 4.0. features in the GeoGebra 4 Sneak Peek Series by Guillermo Bautista
- Do the Maths - GeoGebra iTunes
- Daniel Mentrard's Tutorials
New GeoGebra Institutes
- GeoGebra Institute of Valencia, Spain
- GeoGebra Institute of Rousse, Bulgaria
- GeoGebra Institute of Kaposvár, Hungary
- GeoGebra Institute of Tel-Aviv, Israel
Future Events
See our Events Map & Calendar for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences as well as for proceedings of past conferences. Aug
- 11-13 Aug 2011: 16th International Seminar of Mathematics Education on Creativity Development and Gifted Students Daejeon, Korea
- 13 Aug 2011: Using GeoGebra and Wiki in Teaching and Learning Mathematics Diliman, The Philippines
- 29-31 Aug 2011: International GeoGebra Conference Hagenberg near Linz, Austria
- 30 Aug-3 Sept 2011: Education for a Global Networked Society in Exeter, United Kingdom
Sept
- 17-18 Sept 2011: PL II Ogólnoposka Konferencja GeoGebry in Warsaw, Poland
- 19-23 Sept 2011: Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics in Bolu, Turkey
- 30 Sept-2 Oct 2011: Second Nordic GeoGebra Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania
Other Conference Dates
- Submission Deadline for Annual International Conference on Education and e-Learning (E&L 2011), November 7-8, Singapore is August 9, 2011. Registration Deadline is October 21, 2011
- Deadline of 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 TSGs to OTs for ICME 2012 is November 1, 2011
- Deadline for Submission of proposals for Workshops and sharing groups to IPC chair for ICME 2012 is November 30, 2011
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If you have news for our next newsletter, please let us know at events@geogebra.org
