GeoGebra Institute:2012 Annual Report GI Sheffield

The GeoGebra Institute of Sheffield

• GIS

People

Mathematics Education Centre

• Mark Dabbs (Chair)
• Hilary Povey
• Max Caley

Mathematics Department

• Neil Challis
• Harry Gretton

Training and Support

CPD is given throughout the year as advertised on our website:
http://research.shu.ac.uk/geogebra/TrainingCPD.html
Currently there are 2 Beginners, 2 Intermediates and 1 Advanced course planned. All take place on 9:30 - 16:30 on Saturdays and are currently free.

Other, bespoke courses have been and can be run for individuals/groups/societies but as such may incur costs.

Many tutorials and exemplar GeoGebra files at varying levels are to be found on the GIS website:
http://research.shu.ac.uk/geogebra/Resources.html

Undergraduate Courses that include aspects of GeoGebra

• 3 Year BSc (hons) in Mathematics with Education and QTS
  • EXPLORING MATHEMATICAL MODELLING
  • INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA, THINKING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH
  • INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES
  • CROSS CURRICULAR MODELLING
  • EXPLORING EXISTING KNOWLEDGE

• BSc in Mathematics
  • DYNAMIC GEOMETRY

Postgraduate Courses that include aspects of GeoGebra

• TEACH FIRST
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGEBRA
  • TRANSFORMATION GEOMETRY IN THE PLANE
  • RICH TASKS IN GEOMETRY

• Subject Knowledge Enhancement course (SKE)/PGCE Secondary Mathematics (full time two year)
  • CROSS CURRICULAR MODELLING
  • LINEAR ALGEBRA

• Short Course Programme Mathematics Development Programme for Teachers (SKE 8)
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGEBRA
  • LIMITS AND CONTINUITY
  • THE DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS
  • THE INTEGRAL CALCULUS

• Flexible PGCE in Mathematics
  • AN INTRODUCTION TO GEOGEBRA

Development and Sharing

Some of our teaching and GeoGebra related materials can be downloaded from our GI's page: Resources These materials are designed to be shared by the community of teachers at all kinds of schools, from elementary schools to universities. There is also a growing collection of GeoGebra Tutorials from Basic to Advanced levels.

Outreach

We continue to introduce and demonstrate aspects of GeoGebra and associated modifications in pedagogy in local secondary school mathematics departments both when supporting our Mathematics Education students in their school placements and also during bespoke demonstration lessons for staff and pupils.

Publications

Conference Talk/Workshop on the Sequence Function in Poland 2012