Dynamic Geometry Systems (DGS) or Interactive geometry software (IGS, also called “dynamic geometry environments”, DGEs) are computer programs which allow one to create and then manipulate geometric constructions, primarily in plane geometry. One starts construction by putting a few points and using them to define new objects such as lines, circles or other points. After some construction is done, one can move the points one started with and see how the construction changes.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_geometry_software
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Mathematics, Computer Mathematical Systems, Creativity, Art
Sergiy Rakov (G.S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical University, Ukraine), Viktor Gorokh (G.S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical University, Ukraine), and Kirill Osenkov (G.S. Skovoroda National Pedagogical University, Ukraine)
Copyright: © 2009
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-352-4.ch015
Abstract
The chapter discusses the possibilities modern IT opens for Mathematics and its applications to real life, in particular to Art – by an example of automated construction of caricatures. The research approach in math education which is based on computer modeling as a methodology of a competency approach is discussed as well as the future educational environment with free access to Internet resources and possibilities to operate software in distributive mode. Many examples are given – from simple illustrations to new math facts invented with original dynamic geometry package DG and proved with the help of computer algebra system Derive.