There’s a handy program called Geometer’s Sketchpad that is especially important to future math educators in constructing geometric shapes quickly and easily using digital versions of a compass and a straightedge. For example, one can quickly create a regular hexagon given the length of one of its sides, or a right isosceles triangle given one of the legs. While staying in Euclidean geometry, I was able to construct 10 tools that are saved onto one Sketchpad document.
Unfortunately, you will need to download Geometer’s Sketchpad to access this “toolbox” of mine. It is fairly easy and does not take up a lot of storage space. You will need a desktop or laptop computer, as a downloadable version of Geometer’s Sketchpad for tablets and mobile devices either does not exist or is not yet available to the public.
Happy geometering!
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