On March 7th, Dr. Jeff Morgan hosted another Houston Area Calculus Teachers' workshop at the University of Houston. The guest speaker was Dr. Mike May, S.J. of St. Louis University Math Department.  He presented an excellent workshop on GeoGebra, a free, cross-platform program that makes animations and applets for graphing, geometry, statistics and more.  Below are a few of my early attempts.  I will be adding more as I get time.  

Lines

Algebra I : a demonstration on converting from Slope-Intercept to Standard form

Incenter

Geometry: a demonstration of the incenter of a triangle

Circumcenter

Geometry: a demonstation of the circumcenter of a triangle

Parabola
Algebra II: a demonstration of transformations on a parabola

Conics

Algebra II: A demonstration of conics in standard form

Conics2

Algebra II: same as above but with modifications requested by Mr. Kiecke :)

Rotated conics

Algebra II or PreCalculus:  same as above except with the edition of the xy term to allow rotations

a x² + b x y + c y² + d x + e y + f = 0

Sine
PreCalculus: a demonstration on transformations of the sine graph

Cardioid or Limacon

PreCalculus: a demonstration about the relationship between a and b in r = a + b sin t

Roses

PreCalculus: a demonstration about the relationship between n and the number of pedals to the rose

Taylor for Sine
Calculus: a demonstration of Taylor polynomial approximations
  
More to come soon......

GeoGebra website

Home page of GeoGebra where you can download this program.

Mathplotter

A web site with many interactive demonstrations including many made with GeoGebra (mathplotter.lawrenceville.org)

  

  

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