Forging Connections and Web Sketchpad

I attended (5/11/2020) a 2 hour webinar that was very good.

It was very good. They have good goals and good guiding principles.

For Web Sketchpad (this is a free, web, version of Geometer’s Sketchpad, see the graphic for a good place to start.

If you append the ‘queries’ in the graphic you can get more information.

Webinar Forging Connections (39 here)

NSF grant

Running the webinar: Karen Hollebrands – NC state Math educator

Lead with geometry!!

There are goals and guiding principles.

5 units

https://geometricfunctions.org/fc/ – intended for HS students. There are also areas for T-Ed studs, T-ed T’s.

Presenters:

Karen Hollebrands, Allison McCulloch; Kristen Fye, Daniel Scher (web sketchpad developer), Scott Steketee

Identify functions activity

Points are Paired. 1 moves (independent) 1 doesn’t (dependent)

Web sketchpad

Came from Geometer’s sketchpad
Web based
Free for education use. Can’t make money using it.
Tools can be given or taken away
Introductory Videos
Tool Library
WebSketch Viewer
NOTE: there is more than 1 compass. And one is a collapsing (Euclidean!) compass
Web sketchpad has an interesting way