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New Features and Updates Supercharge Learning
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Read More:Transformable Pictures- Engage students in learning by letting them import and transform any image.
- Import digital photographs or drag and drop images from a web page into a sketch.
- Pictures can be reflected, rotated, dilated, attached to points, cropped to polygons, iterated, used in locus constructions, and more!
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Hot Text™ - Hot Text makes presentations clearer and more effective by dynamically linking captions and the objects they describe.
- Simply click an object to insert its fully mathematically formatted notation (Hot Text) into a caption.
- Mouse over that Hot Text to highlight the referenced object.
- We've also added numerous text-editing shortcuts and enhanced keyboard input of mathematical expressions, including pi and theta.
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Marker Tool- The Marker tool enhances presentations and facilitates the use of interactive whiteboards.
- Add clarity with angle markers, congruency marks, and parallel arrows.
- In blank space, you can handwrite text or circle parts of your sketch for emphasis or make a freehand drawing that you can then transform.
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Expanded Algebraic Capabilities- Function plots and loci can be transformed and iterated, and intersections of function plots can be found.
- Construct entire families of functions and families of curves, parameterized either geometrically or numerically.
- Choose a grid with trigonometric labels, create and listen to dynamic audible functions, and graph parametric functions.
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Expanded Geometric Capabilities- Easily construct polygons and their interiors with the new Polygon tool.
- Angles
can be defined by two intersecting rays or segments, and can also be
defined to be reflex angles greater than 180° or trigonometric angles
(between –2π and 2π radians).
- Multiple transformations can be combined into a single custom transformation.
- New nonlinear transformations can be defined and added to the Transform menu.
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Improved Display- Expanded line weights, line strokes, and point sizes allow for age-appropriate sizing of objects.
- Text style and size on axis tick marks are adjustable.
- Mathematical italicization is used in labels, measurements, calculations, and equations.
- The layout of mathematical expressions is improved — you can use Greek symbols, multiple or nested subscripts in labels, and other mathematical notation.
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Integrated Support and Curriculum- The Learning Center provides guided step-by-step tutorials with embedded videos and a library of student-friendly tips in comics and videos.
- You'll also get access to a wide array of resources including classroom-ready activities for students from elementary through high school.
- The online Reference Center is now easier than ever to search.
- Direct support for students using Sketchpad LessonLink has been integrated.
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Performance and Usability- All your Version 4 sketches and activities will still work — they'll just work faster.
- Sketchpad Version 5 supports Unicode and video game-quality graphics through a tenfold increase in data compression, high-performance graphics acceleration, and advanced data handling.
- The new Information tool gives quick access to definitions and properties of objects.
- New JavaSketchpad applets can incorporate algebraic functionality and action buttons.
- Sketchpad 5 is a downloadable application that can be installed over a network.
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