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Getting Started With Geometer's Sketchpad Drawing, Constructing, and Moving Objects Contents

Using the Toolbox Undoing and Redoing Commands Deleting Points and Line Segments Highlighting Using the Construct Menu Hiding Object Cutting, Copying and Pasting an Object Make Script Run Script

Using the Toolbox

Located on the left-hand side of the Geometer's Sketchpad worksheet, you will see a selection of tools that can be used to draw geometrical figures.

Selection Arrow: Used to select and translate an object. Click and hold mouse button to activate Rotate and Dilate tools. Point Tool: Creates several points Circle Tool: Creates circles Line Tool: Creates line segments. Click and hold mouse button to activate Ray and Line tools. Text Tool: Creates captions or label points and lines. .

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TASK 1 1. Choose the Point tool by clicking and letting go. Move the pointer to the sketch and click to create several points. 2. Choose the Segment tool /Straightedge tool (click and immediately let go). Then, move the pointer into the sketch and press and drag (holding the mouse button down) to create a segment. Experiment also with creating rays and lines in you sketch. 3. Choose the Selection Arrow tool at the top of the Toolbox. Position the tip of the arrow over one of the segments endpoint, press, and drag the point. Drag the other endpoint. Drag the segment itself. 4. Select the circle tool. Move to an empty space on your worksheet, and click and drag outwards to create a circle. 5. Experiment with the Point tool, Segment tool, Selection Arrow tool and circle tool. Make sure you try dragging all these objects and the points that define them to see how they behave. 6. Click the hand icon to choose the Text tool. Move the hand in your sketch so that the tip of the finger is centered over a point. Click the point. If the label is in an inconvenient place, press the label and drag it somewhere else.

Undoing and Redoing Commands

Go to the Edit menu at the top of the screen. Notice that your first option is Undo Draw Circle, or the last command you completed. Try this. Go back to the Edit menu, and select Redo Draw Circle. Hold down the Shift key and go back to the Edit menu again. Notice that the first option in the menu is now Undo All. You can use this to revert back to your last saved copy of a worksheet. If you want a blank sketch for a clean start, perform the following steps: Double-click the System Menu in the upper left corner of your sketch. Double-clicking closes the active window, or you can click once and choose Close from the menu that appears. Click the File menu and choose New Sketch, Youll get a nice, new, clean sketch.

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Deleting Points and Line Segments

To delete a part of your drawing, simply select it and hit the [delete] key:

Highlighting
The most important thing in GSP is how to highlight objects. This is your way of telling the computer, "I'm talking about this object." To highlight you must use the select tool. The computer tells you a straight object or a circle is highlighted by putting little black squares on the object. A point is highlighted when it looks like a bulls eye. 1. On your new sketch, draw several points. Notice that the last point you drew is highlighted. 2. Draw a circle and two segments that start outside the circle and pass through it. 3. Use the select tool to move the circle just a little bit but still intersecting the segments. What if you want to move more than one thing at a time? To highlight more than one thing at a time you need to hold down the shift key while highlighting all the objects. The previous sentence is bolded because it is extremely important. Now highlight the circle and one of the segments. Move them away from the second segment so that the second segment and the circle no longer intersect. TASK 2 1. Create a new sketch. 2. Construct a triangle and a quadrilateral by using toolbar.

Using the Construct Menu

The Construct menu provides ways to create objects with geometrical properties related to those of objects you have already drawn. Construct two point s. Select both points using Selection tool. Choose Construct Menu and point to segment.

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While the segment is still selected, choose construct Menu and select Point on Segment TASK 3 Create a new sketch. Construct a triangle and a quadrilateral by using Construct Menu TASK 4 1. Using the point tool , create a point somewhere in a blank space in your worksheet. This will mark the center of your circle. 2. Using the line tool your circle. , draw a line segment. This will define the radius of

3. Activate the selection arrow . 'Select' your line and point simultaneously by clicking on one, and holding down the [shift] key while clicking on the other. Both the point and the line will appear black, indicating that they have been 'selected'. 4. Go to the Construct menu. Notice that some of the items in this menu appear black, indicating that they are available, while other items appear grey, indicating that they cannot be used. Which items are available depends on what types of points, lines, or objects you have selected. 5. From the Construct menu, select Circle By Center + Radius (recall that the two objects you have selected are a center and a radius). A circle will appear on your worksheet.

TASK 5 Create a new sketch Using the Construct menu, construct a point on segment, a segment with a midpoint, two parallel lines, perpendicular line, angle bisector, Circle by Center + Point, Interior and Arc through 3 points. TASK 6 Construct an interior for a triangle and quadrilateral. Construct any polygon and Save the file as Polygon.gsp

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Hiding Objects
Very seldom when using GSP will you delete objects. Instead you will hide them. Delete means to completely erase something, while hide means that it's still there but you just can't see it. Look through the menus to find the "Hide" command. What menu was it under? ________________ Highlight the circle and hide it using either the menu or the keyboard shortcut. The circle should disappear. Suppose you really didn't want the circle to be gone because you miss it like a long-lost brother. To bring it back you need to use the "Show All Hidden" command under the DISPLAY menu. Your long-lost brother the circle should reappear.

Cutting, Copying and Pasting an Object

Geometer's Sketchpad lets you cut and paste objects. Once you have selected a point, line, or object, you can use the Edit menu to Cut, Copy or Paste the object.

Make Script
1. To make a script that will perform this construction, we first select all the objects. You can do this from the Edit menu with Select All, or you can use the arrow tool to drag a box around all the objects in the sketch.

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2. From the Work menu choose Make Script.

3. You now have a second window (Script01.gss in the picture above). The script you have made contains the steps you carried out to construct the circumcircle of a triangle, and you can use the script to repeat those steps on any triangle. Notice that the script window is highlighted. Click in the sketch window to highlight it and bring it to the front. Now click the X in the upper right hand corner of the SKETCH window to close it. You do not need to save this sketch.

Run Script
1. Now open a new sketch window by going to the File menu and choosing New Sketch.

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2. Create three noncollinear points in the new sketch window and select all three, as in the picture.

3. Bring the script window to the front by clicking on it, and then click PLAY. You see the steps of your construction carried out on the three points. If you had clicked FAST instead of PLAY, the steps would have been carried out quickly.