The interactive geometry software Cinderella. The interactive geometry on computers. With CD-ROM

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Cinderella -- the book as well as the software, at the first glance looks like something you can play with for a while but not more. This first impression is proven correct when reading the book or working with the software for a while. Cinderella allows the user to set up a geometric scenario, a basic construction is already a little bit harder because there is no way to input coordinates or measures, everything has to be done by mouse clicks. As soon as the basic (independent) elements are there, constructing geometric objects (lines from points, intersections, etc.) works quite nicely. The software seems to be useful wherever exact coordinates for the input values are not important but the construction steps are, or for illustrating certain geometric theorems. I could imagine that there is a certain range of applications in courses on geometry or in teaching mathematics at high schools. What is impressive is the wide variety of platforms on which the software runs -- because of the decision for Java as the implementation language. The possibility to store examples and constructions in different ways -- as ``student exercises and as ``web pages may be useful.




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