On the support list, a high school teacher (Jacob) wrote: > That would be a huge value to me. As a high school teacher, the > features of GeoGebra almost completely fill the void of "things I wish > sage could do". The notebook widgets for Mathematica style > demonstrations would fill quite a bit of the same void, but GeoGebra > is already robust and has a ton of functionality. > > I love sage, but the high school definition of "exploration" generally > means grabbing things and moving them around and seeing what happens. > That is hard to accomplish in sage and it is what interactive geometry > software like GeoGebra was designed to do. Sage is great for my > calculus and statistics classes, but it falls short in Precalculus and > Geometry where a much more tactile grab approach works well. If I > could send data freely back and forth between the two I could create > much more powerful concept demonstrations across the board in my > class. > > The fact that GeoGebra can be driven by text commands and embedded as > a java applet makes interfacing it with a system like sage seem > possible. I am very excited about this possibility because for me it > would "complete" sage's functionality.
Jason Grout did some research on GeoGebra and found these examples: >1. Approximating an integral with sums: http://www.geogebra.org/en/examples/integral/loweruppersum.html > >2. Trying to intercept an object in 3d by only adjusting direction, >altitude, and velocity of a projectile: http://www.dean.usma.edu/math/people/Peterson/geogebra/parametric3d-ballistic.html >I think this helps students realize how difficult the problem is to do by guessing and checking! > >Lots more english examples are at http://www.geogebra.org/en/wiki/index.php/English My question is, do the core Sage developers think that adding GeoGebra to Sage is a good idea or a bad idea? Ted --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
