Empower Students

The Geometer's Sketchpad® Dynamic Mathematics software allows students to visualize and explore mathematical relationships.

By building and investigating their own constructions and models, students increase their ownership and understanding of mathematical concepts.

Sketchpad™ gives students the tools to:

• Generate algebraic explorations of arithmetic using models that support pattern recognition, testing conjectures, and generalization and justification
• Develop algebraic habits of mind as they drag objects or change parameters and observe results that reveal functional dependencies
• Devise and test formulas using Sketchpad's Calculator
• Develop the concepts that are the basis for our system of classifying shapes
• Create and explore translations, reflections, rotations, and dilations
• Fully explore and understand the underlying principles of Euclidean constructions
• Explore the properties of functions by adjusting parameters and watching the behavior of the graph
• Create mathematical animations to illustrate geometric curves as well as functional behavior in Cartesian and polar coordinate systems
• Communicate their findings and explorations to their peers with easy-to-use presentation tool