Using free open source software for intelligent geometric computing

  • Authors:
  • Miguel A. Abánades;Francisco Botana;Jesús Escribano;José L. Valcarce

  • Affiliations:
  • CES Felipe II, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Aranjuez, Spain;Departamento de Matemática Aplicada I, Universidad de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain;F. Informática, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;IES Pontepedriña, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Computational science and its applications - Volume Part IV
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper describes some examples of fruitful cooperation between geometric software tools (in particular, GeoGebra) and a free open source computer algebra system, Sage (Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation). We collect some of our efforts for enhancing mathematics education via technologically rich environments. We show that a math teacher with no specialized programming knowledge can mix widespread resources to get motivating new teaching tools. Furthermore, we explore an exciting but barely used (even known!) characteristic of Sage: its use as a remote kernel. We test it by computing symbolic tasks in a dynamic geometry prototype that are currently out of scope of standard dynamic geometry software. Finally, we illustrate the development of web-based geometric resources by communicating GeoGebra and Sage through Javascript.