Another Sofware: GEOGEBRA

   In my previous post, I have mentioned about Geometer’s Sketchpad. Now, I want to introduce GeoGebra for you. GeoGebra is a free dynamic software which can be used to learn and teach mathematics and geometry. Its name arises from geometry and algebra. Although there are a lot of similarities between Geometer’s Sketchpad and GeoGebra, when we compare them, GeoGebra has more complex structure. In addition, you can open a GeoGebra account yourself, share their constructions in there, and follow other users who you like their sharing.

   GeoGebra has different types which are GeoGebra Graph-Calculator, GeoGebra Geometry, GeoGebra 3D Graph, and Mathematics Applications. You can use one of them according to your aim.

   GeoGebra has been rapidly having popularity among teachers and researchers around the world, because it is easy-to-use dynamic mathematics software that combines many aspects of different mathematical packages. GeoGebra encourages students to make projects in mathematics and geometry since students can personalize their work in this software. For example, they can change the colors, font size, line style according to their preferences, they can make some constructions by different ways; there is no limitation in how they construct.

   You can design a game relevant to your topic by using GeoGebra. So, the topic become more interesting for students because today’s children spend most of their times with games and learn too much. The visualization is possible with GeoGebra for the student to see and explore mathematical relations and concepts which were difficult to show in past lessons without technology.

   I want to talk about reasons of why you can use this software. First, GeoGebra is a free open source dynamic mathematics software. So, you can freely download it from http://www.goegebra.org/. Because of that, you do not face the license problems. Secondly, GeoGebra is constantly being developed by various researchers. Its database is always updating and improving.