{"id":2163,"date":"2013-01-22T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T03:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2013-01-22T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T03:35:40","slug":"geogebra-institute-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2013\/01\/22\/geogebra-institute-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Geogebra Institute of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geogebracanada.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2164\" title=\"Geogebra\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Geogebra-300x110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Geogebra-300x110.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Geogebra-1024x375.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Geogebra.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Today is my blog day&#8230; I haven&#8217;t been posting much for the past three weeks as I have been very busy with teaching my daily Inquiry course for mathematics and physics teachers&#8230; and have been extremely busy with it. As the course is coming to an end, I have a little bit more time to think and reflect. Also a number of interesting things happened today. Today, I found out about a great resource for mathematics education. I have been using Geogebra for a while. It is a free software that helps students and teachers explore geometry and algebra in a very creative way. As I am interested in technology, I became interested in it and how it can affect mathematics and science learning. At the same time, we had an interesting activity in class a few days ago. I wanted to demonstrate various ways of using clickers and I had to come up with a few simple questions&#8230; As I didn&#8217;t have much time, I found a few questions online. One of them dealt with geometry and to my surprise I realized that many of our student-teachers have very little knowledge of geometry (why am I surprised, after all I know that my own children do not learn it in high school&#8230;?).<\/p>\n<p>Geometry unfortunately is not a part of our curriculum any more&#8230; It is especially troubling in the context of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/ontariotoday\/2013\/01\/22\/tuesday-the-way-we-teach-math\/#socialcomments\" target=\"_blank\">CBC interview<\/a> about mathematics education I happened to listen to today. Geometry is something very visual, beautiful, that helps you develop reasoning skills&#8230; but we do not teach it&#8230; I personally enjoyed geometry a lot and I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geogebracanada.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geogebra Institute of Canada<\/a> provides excellent resources for teachers who want to start using it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Iclickr_geometry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2168\" title=\"Iclickr_geometry\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Iclickr_geometry-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Iclickr_geometry-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/files\/2013\/01\/Iclickr_geometry.jpg 809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my blog day&#8230; I haven&#8217;t been posting much for the past three weeks as I have been very busy with teaching my daily Inquiry course for mathematics and physics teachers&#8230; and have been extremely busy with it. As&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2013\/01\/22\/geogebra-institute-of-canada\/\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geogebra Institute of Canada<\/span><span class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6898,6899,795,6989,6981,236259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-simulations","category-data-collection-and-analysis-sensors","category-general","category-general-teaching","category-interactivity-in-the-classroom","category-mathematics-education","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions\/2167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}