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Teaching Geometry with TutorMates

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Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011 (ICCSA 2011)

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TutorMates is a new educational software designed to combine symbolic and geometric tools to teach and learn mathematics at Secondary Education level. Its main technical ingredients are: a Computer Algebra system (Maxima) plus a dynamic geometry and graphical tool (GeoGebra), and an intermediary layer that connects the user interface and the computation engine. The role of this intermediary layer is to adapt the computation kernel to the elementary mathematical needs of the expected users. All these components are adapted to the mathematics curricula of 12 to 18 years old students. In this paper, we describe how TutorMates combines and adapts these complex technological tools in order to improve the computer-aided teaching of geometry.

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  1. Cantabria University, La Rioja University, Addlink Research, Spain

    María José González, Julio Rubio, Tomás Recio, Laureano González-Vega & Abel Pascual

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  1. Basilicata University Potenza, L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, Santander, C.P. 39005, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, VIC 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, Higashi-ku, 813-8503, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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González, M.J., Rubio, J., Recio, T., González-Vega, L., Pascual, A. (2011). Teaching Geometry with TutorMates. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6785. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21898-9_33

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