GeoGebra Newsletter August 2011

[Jesus Escribano]

El verano se acaba ...

GeoGebra Community News

• Sign up for the Midwest GeoGebra Journal. They are currently recruiting volunteers to review manuscripts for the journal for publication in Spring 2012.
• Encourage your students to take part in our Midsummer Photo Contest or send a nice video to our Student Video Contest!

GeoGebra 4 Development News

• Installers and Portable versions available for testing (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Tessellation using Copy & Paste and the new Vector Polygon Tool
• New popup to replace the autocomplete in the Input Bar
• You can now type x(x+1) and a(x+1) without a space / *
• New Tools "Create List", "Complex Number", "Vector Polygon"
• Buttons, Input Boxes, Checkboxes, Sliders, Images, Polygons, Texts snap to grid when dragged
• Textfield Tool renamed to "Input Box"
• Implicit Curve improvements (including allowing point on)
• New command Implicit Curve <f(x,y)>
• New command Identity <Number>
• MathPiper now totally replaced by MPReduce (faster, more stable)
• Slider Tool moved
• List1(n) syntax disabled

GeoGebra in the Media

• The German Netzwelt.de tested GeoGebra
• GeoGebra Challenge in the Spanish ElPais for the 100th Anversary of the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society
• New Teacher Award in Taiwan
• GeoGebra 4 Teachers at Math Hombre

Tutorials & Materials

• Overview of the new 4.0. features in the GeoGebra 4 Sneak Peek Series by Guillermo Bautista
• Do the Maths - GeoGebra iTunes
• Daniel Mentrand's Tutorials

New GeoGebra Institutes

• GeoGebra Institute of Valencia, Spain
• GeoGebra Institute of Rousse, Bulgaria
• GeoGebra Institute of Kaposvár, Hungary
• GeoGebra Institute of Tel-Aviv, Israel

Future Events

See our Events Map & Calendar for a complete list of upcoming workshops and conferences as well as for proceedings of past conferences.

Aug

• 11-13 Aug 2011: 16th International Seminar of Mathematics Education on Creativity Development and Gifted Students Daejeon, Korea
• 13 Aug 2011: Using GeoGebra and Wiki in Teaching and Learning Mathematics Diliman, The Philippines
• 29-31 Aug 2011: International GeoGebra Conference Hagenberg near Linz, Austria
• 30 Aug-3 Sept 2011: Education for a Global Networked Society in Exeter, United Kingdom

Sept

• 17-18 Sept 2011: PL II Ogólnoposka Konferencja GeoGebry in Warsaw, Poland
• 19-23 Sept 2011: Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics in Bolu, Turkey
• 30 Sept-2 Oct 2011: Second Nordic GeoGebra Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania

Other Conference Dates

• Submission Deadline for Annual International Conference on Education and e-Learning (E&L 2011), November 7-8, Singapore is August 9, 2011. Registration Deadline is October 21, 2011
• Deadline of submission of Proposals for Asian Technology Conference on Mathematics in Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 16-18, 2011 is November 16, 2011
• Deadline for Submission of proposals for TSGs to OTs for ICME 2012 is November 1, 2011
• Deadline for Submission of proposals for Workshops and sharing groups to IPC chair for ICME 2012 is November 30, 2011

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Jesús Escribano Martínez
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
T. 91 394 4679
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