A STUDY ON PRACTICAL GEOMETRY USING ICT TOOL GEOGEBRA

Mr. P.Charles Paul¹, Mr. G. Thulasi², Mrs. J.S.Chithra³, Mr. T.V.Devakumaran⁴

ABSTRACT

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can play a crucial role in the education sector. There are tremendous applications of ICT in the real world. ICT can play great role in agreed and non formal forms of education. The economy has characteristically been divided into agricultural, manufacturing and service sectors. Today, these sectors have been joined by a fourth sort: the successful knowledge sector consisting of knowledge workers. In an progressively more ‘smart’ automated environment, mental work is moving from crunching furthermore tossing data to creating information and knowledge, and then communicating, exchanging and distributing it with fellow-workers. In short, as it was already noted more than decade ago, mind craft is replacing handicraft (Perelman 1992). The everywhere computer and its related ICT devices have become influential tools for much of the world economy. In this paper a chapter “Practical Geometry” in Teaching of Mathematics subject of the Diploma in Elementary Education of Second Year of Tamil Nadu State Board was taken into consideration.  It suggests valuable ways of teaching different types of geometrical concepts such as triangles, quadrilaterals, including cyclic quadrilateral   using the dynamic online software GeoGebra.  This paper also focuses on illustrations of how GeoGebra can be used for revelation of the above geometrical figures. Besides, this it gives students in visual experiences and understanding the Mathematics subject Geometrical concept in an appropriate way.  The ideas introduced in this paper can be further widespread to study of Algebra and Statistics in the second Year Diploma in Elementary Education Course of Tamil Nadu State Board.

Key words:  Algebra, GeoGebra, ICT Education, Practical Geometry, Statistics