Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 30, Issue 1

Motion Geometry with the Apple IIe

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 30 Issue 1, October 1991

31 – 36

Motion Geometry with the Apple IIe

A. Craig Loewen

The computer can be used effectively as an environment in which mathematics may be discussed and learned; however, the key to such a use of the computer is the teacher’s or programmer’s ability to pose problems that challenge students’ conceptualizations of mathematical ideas. The teacher-made program presented below is an attempt to construct a computer-learning environment to facilitate the instruction of transformations.