Dynamic geometry and the rebuilding of the Greek geometric thought in the classroom

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  • Leda Maria Bastoni Talavera UNINOVE, São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5585/exacta.v2i0.549

Keywords:

Geometria dinâmica. Pensamento geométrico grego.Software Cabri Géomètre II.

Abstract

The use of dynamic geometry softwares by the students in the Mathematics class¬es, based in historical and philosophical principles, can bring back a geometric thought that, according to the Greeks, would lead to the world of knowledge. This historical path, exemplified with some constructions made by Apollonius and Archimedes using the means of dynamic geometry with Cabri Géomètre II, will be the point of this study to verify the proposed hypotheses. Thus we are going to prove in real time the definition of parabola through the areas made by Apollonius and the Archimedes’ prove of the sum of the triangles areas obtained from a parabola segment limited by a parabolic arc.

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Author Biography

Leda Maria Bastoni Talavera, UNINOVE, São Paulo

Especialista em Educação Matemática – Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz; Professora de Informática Aplicada no curso de Matemática, de Cálculo e Lógica Computacional no curso de Ciência da Computação – Uninove; Capacitadora do Projeto Teia do Saber – Uninove.

Published

2008-02-27

How to Cite

Talavera, L. M. B. (2008). Dynamic geometry and the rebuilding of the Greek geometric thought in the classroom. Exacta, 2, 117–132. https://doi.org/10.5585/exacta.v2i0.549

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