Comments:GeoGebra Newsletter 2011-12

Development News

GeoGebra 4.2 Beta

• GeoGebra 4.2 Beta now has a Barcode Command so that you can encode and

decode barcodes and QR codes

• You can now connect a Kinect to GeoGebra 4.2 Beta and get real-time 3D coordinates of a "skeleton" in GeoGebra (Windows only, testers needed for OSX and Ubuntu)
• The work on HTML5 GeoGebraWeb is going very well. We have now separated out the whole kernel, so that the same code can be used by

GebGebraWeb and GeoGebra 4.2/5.0. We will have something to show soon!

GeoGebra 5 Beta

• GeoGebra 5 Beta has some improvements (eg angles) and new commands (eg Cube, Octahedron) for 3D geometry.

Tutorials & Materials

• The drop of water Amazing 3D ripple construction from Daniel Mentrard
• Simple Dynamic Text in GeoGebra 4 by Arthur Lee
• A Problem with My Tie by Mr Wang
• Exploring Hopf bifurcations with GeoGebra 4 by Steven Strogatz
• Clovers and Polar graph
• The idea of limit in differential calculus

GeoGebra Book & Community News

• Book on GeoGebra: Model-centered learning: Pathways to Mathematical Understanding Using GeoGebra, Lingguo Bu & Robert Schoen (Eds.), Sense Publisher
• Book on GeoGebra: HUELLAS MATEMÁTICA, written by Fernando Chorny, Pablo Casares & Claudio Salpeter, coordinated & supervised by Nora Legorboru & Ruth Schaposchnik
• Book on GeoGebra: "La Nuova Geometria del Compasso", Le costruzioni di Lorenzo Mascheroni utilizzando il software GeoGebra, written by F. Fabrizi & P. Pennestrì, coordinated by Prof.ssa Noemi Stivali
• Sign up for the Midwest GeoGebra Journal. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in Spring 2012 and looking for funding so that the GeoGebra Midwest Conference can be free for participants

GeoGebra in the Media

• Market tools supporting learning in Khoahoc Pho Thong
• GeoGebra...We've come a long way since graph paper! in Mr. Nebz's Blog
• Content aggregation tools renewed in The Hindu
• 15 Reasons Why GeoGebra is Successful in Mathematics and Multimedia

New GeoGebra Institutes

• GeoGebra Institute of Prague, Czech Republic
• GeoGebra Institute of Maine, Maine, USA
• GeoGebra Institute of Chaco, Argentina

Future Events

See our Events Map & Calendar for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences as well as for proceedings of past conferences.

Dec

• 7 Dec 2011: GeoGebra-Tag in Klagenfurt, Austria
• 14 Dec 2011: GeoGebra Seminar in Math House, Teheran, Iran
• 15 Dec 2011: GeoGebra for Beginners, Walsall, UK
• 17-19 Dec 2011: Asian Technology Conference on Mathematics in Hsinchu, Taiwan
• 27 Dec 2011: Winter Vacation Seminar (GeoGebra workshop) in Seoul, Korea

Jan 2012

• 25 Jan 2012: GeoGebra Workshop, Bad Ischl, Austria
• 28 Jan 2012: Introduction to GeoGebra, Liverpool, UK

Other Conference Dates

• Deadline for Submission of proposals for Posters and Exhibition to IPC chair for ICME 2012 is December 15, 2011
• Deadline for Paper submission deadline for Spring International Conference on Engineering Education in Xi'an, China, May 26-29, 2012 is January 15, 2012
• 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

Happy New Year

The GeoGebra Team wishes you a happy new year 2012!

Contact

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