ORBIT/GeoGebra Competition

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The 2013 competition has generated five high quality open-ended activities that support interactive teaching and allow children (age 6-10) to explore an element of mathematics for themselves.

Lesson idea. GeoGebra is a free, fun, interactive software environment that can be used with great effect to promote interactive teaching and enquiry based learning. The competition winning GeoGebra applets presented here also come with guidance notes for use in the primary classroom.

Teaching approach. The following guidance note are provided for each resource:

• a short overview
• brief instructions or teacher’s note (simple instructions including useful tips and recommendations)
• list of learning objectives
• description of the underlying pedagogical rationale/teaching approach
  

Resource details
Title	ORBIT/GeoGebra Competion 2013
Topic
Teaching approach
Learning Objectives
Format / structure	wiki page with downloadable .doc version
Subject
Age of students / grade
Table of contents
Additional Resources/material needed
Useful information
Related ORBIT Wiki Resources
Other (e.g. time frame)
Files and resources to view and download	The winner of the competition was Anthony Or with his pair of complementary applets on perimeter and area. Both applets have in-app spreadsheets for students to record their investigation results. These are excellent applets for visualising area and perimeter, addressing common misconceptions held by primary school students in a fun interactive way. variety of perimeters with fixed area variety of areas with fixed perimeter The ORBIT/GeoGebra competition yielded a further three high quality GeoGebra activities: number and representation game File:Parabola.ggb File:Plane.ggb Guidance notes: Flying paper planes Solar and Lunar Eclipse Radioactive Decay and Carbon Dating Cubic Equations and Their Roots One student also produced an excellent document with links to GeoGebra files File:GeoGebra Software for Technology Enhanced Learning.docx
Acknowledgement	This was a joint competition between The University of Cambridge Faculty of Education ORBIT project and GeoGebra (a world-wide community developing and using the GeoGebra software).{{}}
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