History Comes Alive with Technology
Session 708
NCTM 2001 Annual Meeting
April 6, 2001

Gary S. Stoudt, Mary C. Enderson, Janet M. Walker

• Gary Stoudt
  gsstoudt@iup.edu
• Mary Enderson
  mcenders@mtsu.edu
• Janet Walker
  jwalker@iup.edu

• history project for technology course
• teacher's notes for sketches
• resources

• history project for technology course
• teacher's notes for sketches
• resources

• All files, zipped
• student sketches, zipped

• Descartes Solution of Quadratics
  • first version
  • second version

Conics

• Conics as sections of a cone

• Geometer's Sketchpad
• The Interactive Geometry Software Cinderella
• Mathematica
• LiveGraphics3D

• Euclid's Elements
  David Joyce's online version of Euclid's Elements. Wonderful site, with interactive sketches illustrating the theorems. You can rarely go wrong with Euclid for getting historical ideas to use in the classroom.
• Xah Lee's Page
  Xah Lee's Page, containing his "A Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves," including many famous curves of historical importance, using both Geometer's Sketchpad and Mathematica. The best resource for this material.
• Recent Talks Using Geometer's Sketchpad
  "Recent Talks" page for Geometer's Sketchpad. We especially recommend the resources by Scott Steketee, which while not necessarily historical, are very much in the spirit of the Babylonian, Greek, and Islamic mathematicians in the use of geometry to illustrate concepts in algebra, analytic geometry, and calculus.