Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2011-11

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 display of formulas
• 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

Tutorials & Materials

• GeoGebra 4 Quickstart - revised and extended quickstart guide for GeoGebra 4
• GeoGebra 4 Introductory Book - revised and extended introductory book for GeoGebra 4
• Mates y + : Interesting page with a lot of interactive exercices and fun
• GeoGebra 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

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

New GeoGebra Institutes

• GeoGebra Institute of Cyprus, Cyprus
• GeoGebra Institute of Tianjin, China
• GeoGebra Institute of Niger, Niger
• GeoGebra Institute of NCRT, 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
• GeoGebra Institute of Prishtina, 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

• 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
• 23-24 Nov 2011: Jornadas GeoGebra TIC Tucumán - Ministerio de Educación - Argentina

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