“Teachers have been trained in GeoGebra and are using it in everyday math classes at New Richmond High School,” said John Frye, director of pupil and staff services for the New Richmond Exempted Village School District.
Julie Edmondson from the NREVSD technology department programs 10 new laptop computers that make up a mobile computer lab for math students at New Richmond High School.“The mobile computer lab will be shared by the high school math department teachers and teams of students will explore the applications and changes of vectors, coordinates and much more in a virtual environment.”
The mobile computer lab, consisting of 10 laptop computers, was delivered Thursday. High school match teachers received training in web-based GeoGebra during the summer.
GeoGebra was developed in Europe and is used internationally and is available on the internet at http://www.geogebra.org. It allows teachers and students to do constructions including points, vectors, segments, lines, and conic sections as well as functions, which can be altered dynamically by mouse afterwards.
“Our teachers will use it to demonstrate and teach higher level concepts and skills,” said Frye.
