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GeoGebra Global Gathering 2015

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Last week I attended the GeoGebra Global Gathering in Linz, Austria.   There were lots of fantastic ideas being demonstrated but these are a few of my highlights that I think I’ll be making use of … Students creating animations It was great to see some ideas from Fabian Vitabar from Uruguay about student tasks that involve them creating animations in GeoGebra.  There were two different suggestions for doing this – one was to get the students to create an animation such as a bouncing ball by animating points appropriately and then adding images to make the animation look like a real scene.  The other was to create some more pure maths based animations such as moving points around a polygon.  You can see a GeoGebraBook of his talk and some examples at: https://tube.geogebra.org/b/1408699#material/1408705 .  I think it could be very motivating to students to create animations like these and there is a lot of maths that they’ll need to sort out for themselves to get them to work corre