Publisher's Synopsis
This text provides a discussion of geometrical investigation aided by a computer. Although the book begins with an introduction to one particular software package - Cabri-Geometre - to which it refers throughout, most of the activities suggested should be of interest to users of other software packages such as Geometer's Sketchpad and Geometry Inventor.;The topics covered in depth are: learning geometry through interactive construction; creating macros; discovering theorems; loci; symmetry; geometrical microworld design; isoperimetric problems; and transformation. This volume also includes 20 problems to investigate.;The book contains over 900 geometrical diagrams and hundreds of ideas for investigation are to be found throughout its pages.;Associated with the book is a disk (MS-DOS or Macintosh formats) containing over 400 Cabri-Geometre figures and macros designed to illustrate the contents of the book and to aid personal exploration and extension.;The book should be of interest to teachers of mathematics in schools, to those involved with pre-service or in-service teacher education, and to mathematics lecturers in universities and colleges.
