GeoGebra Animations

On March 7th, Dr. Jeff Morgan hosted another Houston Area Calculus Teachers' workshop at the University of Houston. The guest speaker was Dr. Mike May, S.J. of St. Louis University Math Department.  He presented an excellent workshop on GeoGebra, a free, cross-platform program that makes animations and applets for graphing, geometry, statistics and more.  Below are a few of my early attempts as well as a polar graph animation created by Brian Tucker, the Calculus BC teacher at Travis High School.  I also posted the link to where you can download this free program and I will post some of Dr. May's animations when I get a chance.

Taylor for sine

The Taylor representation of the Sine function

Taylor for e^x

The Taylor representation of the exponential function

Parabola

The basic parabola with "slideable" transformations (not really calculus, just me playing with GeoGebra

Polar Magic Washer

Polar animation created by Brian Tucker, Calculus BC teacher at Travis High School

GeoGebra web site

Go here to download GeoGebra as well as download help files, etc.

Calculus 2007-2008©   Richard Lewis, Dulles High School, Fort Bend ISD