Mathematics Learning beyond Traditional Boundaries
With a scope that spans the mathematics curriculum from middle school to college, The Geometer's Sketchpad brings a powerful dimension to the study of mathematics. Sketchpad™ is a dynamic construction and exploration tool that enables students to explore and understand mathematics in ways that are simply not possible with traditional tools.

Dynamic Visualization Is the Heart of the Program
With Sketchpad, students can construct an object and then explore its mathematical properties by dragging the object with the mouse. All mathematical relationships are preserved, allowing students to examine an entire set of similar cases in a matter of seconds, leading them by natural course to generalisations. Sketchpad encourages a process of discovery in which students first visualise and analyse a problem, and then make conjectures before attempting a proof.

Sketchpad Is Versatile and Easy to Use
Sketchpad is designed with an intuitive interface for ease of use, so your students will be focused on the activity, not the navigation. And Sketchpad works well in a variety of classroom settings: with an overhead projector, with one or two classroom computers, or in a computer lab. Students can work on independent explorations, and they can solve assigned problems collaboratively or alone. Teachers use Sketchpad to create worksheets, exams, and reports by exporting Sketchpad figures and measurements to spreadsheets, word processors, other drawing programs, and the Web.

Enhances Learning across the Mathematics Curriculum
Effective with students from KS3 to A2 level, Sketchpad brings its full dynamic power to the study of Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus. And Sketchpad's dynamic, visual approach allows younger students to develop the concrete foundation they need to move ahead to more advanced levels of study.

Dynamic Mathematics Is Now More Powerful than Ever Before! Take a look at what's new in Sketchpad version 4:

• The capability to define, combine, evaluate, graph, and differentiate functions makes Sketchpad the perfect tool for algebra and calculus, as well as for geometry.
• Animation features are more powerful, more flexible, and easier to use.
• Multi-page Sketchbooks make it easy to assemble related activities and package them with activity-specific tools, to create electronic portfolios and presentations, to develop curriculum, and to design activities.
• Split/Merge and editing of calculations and functions allow easy modification of sketches.
• Styled text enhances professional appearance; mathematical text increases authenticity.
• User can integrate Web-based resources into Sketchpad activities and publish “live” Dynamic Geometry activities on the Web.
• Fully supports Windows^® and Macintosh^® on the same CD-ROM.
• Easy-to-create Custom Tools extend Sketchpad's mathematics.
• Enhanced graphics allow full-colour objects, text, and background for striking visual effect.
• Use of parametric colour adds an “extra dimension” in any visualization, ranging from simple mathematical finger-painting activities at the early grades to surface plots at the higher grades.
• Easier user interface gets beginners immediately up to speed.
• Selecting multiple objects is easier than ever.
• All of your Sketchpad skills are upwardly transferable to GSP 4.

Amazing Sketchpad Tools
Sketchpad gives you the tools to do the following:

• Accomplish Euclidean constructions with the drawing tools in the Toolbox and with commands in the Construct menu.
• Go beyond Euclidean constructions using commands in the Transform menu to construct translations, reflections, rotations, dilations, and iterations by fixed, computed, and dynamic quantities.
• Enter the realm of analytic geometry using the Graph menu to plot functions and work in rectangular or polar coordinate systems.
• Calculate, define, evaluate, graph, and differentiate functions; see derivatives both graphically and symbolically.
• Create powerful, flexible, animations, for example, to trace out sine waves and explore other trigonometric identities.
• Encapsulate complex constructions in single steps with user-designed Custom Tools.

A Comprehensive Support System
Extensive Sketchpad support resources, including the following, ensure that you and your students will move easily from basics to the more advanced program features.

• Useful Documentation: Sketchpad has built-in online help, and comes with an easy-to-follow Learning Guide, Reference Manual, and Quick Reference Guide.
• Sketchpad Student Edition: With this new, full-featured Student Edition, your students will bring dynamic mathematics home to reinforce their class work and to pursue their own mathematics explorations. £21 plus vat.
• Complete Discovery-Based Curriculum: For a complete geometry or algebra curriculum based on exploration and discovery, consider combining Sketchpad with "Discovering Geometry" or "Discovering Algebra" - see PDF leaflet and order form

Quantity Discounts and License Expansions
If you wish to purchase software at a discount for multiple sites or to expand your user license for use on more computers, please call 01204 811001 and we will be delighted to help you.