Analysing Students’ Creativity in Integrating GeoGebra Applets in Solving Geometrical Problems

Abstract

The challenges facing the economy and technologies determine the needs of the labor market for creative professionals, competent specialists, easily adaptive to the technologically changing information environment. Universities are confronted with the main task to experiment and to discover new opportunities for stimulating student creativity, for teaching and learning for mastering specific knowledge, for developing skills and competencies as a key element in their preparation for professional growth. The authors' research investigates the creative environment for teaching and learning of students (future Mathematics and Informatics teachers in high schools), namely the developing and integrating of GeoGebra applets for solving geometric problems. The opportunities which the attractive GeoGebra software provides for training in Mathematics are used in the experimental survey. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of the results are presented.

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