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Geometer’s Sketchpad is a (software) learning tool, marketed by Key Curriculum Press, designed for teaching Euclidean geometry to high school students. There has been a great trend in the past twenty-five years to reverse-engineer high school geometry so that proofs are deemphasized and empiricism and speculation more highly developed. Geometer’s Sketchpad fits in very nicely with this program.
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Krantz, S.G. (2011). The Computer as an Aid to Teaching and a Substitute for Proof. In: The Proof is in the Pudding. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48744-1_8
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