Teaching Math with the KDE Interactive Geometry Program (Linux Journal)

[Posted June 19, 2009 by ris]

Linux Journal takes a look at the KDE Interactive Geometry (Kig) program to teach mathematics. "Kig allows you to use various tools to diagram and demonstrate different mathematical concepts. With Kig, you can draw points, lines, line segments, half lines, vectors, circles and various other conic sections. When Kig refers to a "half line", it means what I was taught was a ray—essentially a line with one endpoint. Drawing hyperbolic curves on the computer sure beats getting dry-erase marker all over yourself or sneezing because of chalk dust. Even more important though, Kig diagrams are interactive, which means that once you create a diagram, you can move various elements around and see how they behave."