GeoGebra

What is GeoGebra?

GeoGebra is a free dynamic mathematics software package used by teachers of mathematics in classrooms across the world.  It joins geometry, algebra, tables, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. It has won several educational software awards across the globe.

Why do maths teachers and students use GeoGebra?

In its simplest use, GeoGebra allows students to “see” what they are doing with their maths. For example when doing something abstract such as solving a pair of simultaneous equations – it is quick and easy to graph both equations so that students can visualize what the solutions to the equations mean. GeoGebra may be used to give students the opportunity to establish relationships in math for themselves – for example the fact that a tangent to a circle is always at right angles to the radius at the point of contact. The dynamic nature of GeoGebra makes it easy for students to see how changes in one quantity affect other quantities. For example, when learning about standard deviation or correlation coefficient students can change one item in the data and see what effect this has on each quantity.

GeoGebra in teaching learning mathematics

The integration of technology into content area learning requires from teachers to constantly balance the mastery of technology with content area mastery because, greater the mastery of any technology of the classroom teacher be less effort is needed for classroom use and student mastery during the teaching and learning mathematics process. GeoGebra is a dynamic mathematics software for schools that joins geometry, algebra, and calculus, it is an interactive geometry system, a new technology for teaching and learning mathematics. This book confirms that, the new method of use of GeoGebra software in teaching and learning math has increased the level of math knowledge and skills over the traditional method used in teaching and learning process. The experiments, carried out in several secondary schools, have provided evidence that the new teaching and learning method in mathematics based on GeoGebra software causes increase in the level of knowledge and skills in mathematics. In addition to these results, the book contains very useful information for teachers and students on statistical concepts, tools, inferences, and survey evaluation methodology based on qualitative variables.