Lesson 3
Getting Started (Intro to Geometry, continued)
In this lesson, we will have fun working inside the Geometry application. Geometry is one of my favorite applications because there is so much we can do. We will visit Geometry many times during this course. For now, try to get used to which mode you are in by watching the buttons.
Part I
Most of this lesson will be hands on. As you work through an example, think about other buttons that you want to try and just try them. Experiment, explore and have fun! If you get an error dialog box, click OK and continue.
- [Important] You are in a Drawing mode when a toolbar drawing button is highlighted.
- [Very Important] If you do the wrong thing (which is easy to do), select Edit/Undo-Redo immediately. Undo-Redo will undo the very last thing you did, or redo it if selected twice.
1. Drawing a Circle
2. Drawing a Triangle
3. Drawing "other" Figures
The ClassPad has two different dropdown button palettes for drawing. One is for drawing general shapes and the other draws special shapes such as an equilateral triangle. 
Please think about the following as you experiment with drawing:
- You change modes by selecting a different toolbar button or selecting an item from the draw menu.
- When you select items from a menu, the toolbar changes automatically to show your selection as highlighted.
- Pay close attention to which toolbar button is selected!
4. Drawing "general" Figures
5. Drawing "special" Figures
Part I
Practice Exercises
Before beginning the practice exercises, open a word document, type in the following information and then save it as Lesson3 in your CASIO folder within My Documents:
- Date: (enter today's date)
- To: (put your instructor's name here)
- From: (put your name here)
- Re: Lesson 3
- Please open the Geometry application and clear the window.
- Draw a regular polygon with 5 sides. Hint: Look in the Special Shape sub-menu.
- Draw another regular polygon with 6 sides. Hint: Just click its toolbar button.
- Get a screen capture and paste it into your Lesson3 document (under a title of PART I).
- Please clear your window. Draw an ellipse using foci and a vector in the same window.
- Get a screen capture. Add two blank spaces following the first screen capture and then paste this one.
- Please clear your window again. Draw an interesting figure using the Polygon (
) draw button. With this button, your start and end points must be the same; but you can go anywhere in between. - Get a screen capture of your interesting figure. Add two blank spaces following the second screen capture and paste this one. Thank you.