Use Technology to Enhance, Extend, and Connect Classroom Experiences Within and Outside the Classroom

Cuoco, Goldenberg, and Mark (1995) describe high school activities from a module on optimization that is a part of the Education Development Center's Connected Geometry project. They illustrate how students use computer software as a tool for laboratory investigation, conjecture, and verification. The curriculum is crafted in a way that uses technology and software to support mathematical research by students and to help students discover, connect, and explain mathematical concepts.

The following geometry software tools are explored in this article:

• Cabri: The Interactive Geometry Notebook. (1992). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

• Cabri Geometry II. (1995). Dallas, TX: Texas Instruments.

• Geometer's Sketchpad. (1990). Berkeley, CA: Key Curriculum Press.

• The Geometric superSupposer. (1992). Pleasantville, NY: Sumburst/Wings for Learning.

• Tangible Math: Geometry Inventor. (1994) Cambridge, MA: Logal Software.

Klotz (1991) characterizes each of these dynamic geometry software tools in his description of Sketchpad's features.

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