Cabri+3D+v2+Software

=**Cabri 3D v2 Software**=


 * What is it?**
 * Until now three-dimensional geometry was difficult to teach – the complexity of designs in perspective, models that are difficult and time-consuming to construct ... Cabri 3D is the only program that enables you to alleviate these construction difficulties and that also contains the benefits of interactive geometry.


 * How can you use it?**
 * You can create activities that facilitate the introduction and understanding of new concepts, promote the discovery of theorems, instead of just showing them and help model real-life situations.
 * Generate classroom resources by inserting text or pictures in a figure, modifying graphical elements, copying/pasting into other software and producing high-quality printouts.
 * Present activities to students, have them manipulate figures, observe and guide them. Using Cabri allows you to better assess individual student comprehension.
 * Expand online by integrating figures that can be manipulated on web pages or by incorporating Microsoft Office documents.
 * Have students solve problems directly linked to the NCTM standards with possible interdisciplinary connections to physics, geography and the arts.
 * Basic constructions with planes, spheres and lines.
 * Study of common solids: with a click of the mouse, the student or teacher can construct pyramids, parallelograms, cylinders and cones.
 * Sections of solids: The user can represent and determine planar sections of convex polygons.
 * Measurements and calculations: Find measurements related to objects - distances, lengths, area, volumes and angles, and use them in calculations.
 * Through tools that facilitate visualization, students and teachers can adjust viewing angles turning around the scene and appreciate the rendering of depth of the scene.
 * Different representations and perspectives of the same figure: the three angles of technical design, various perspectives.


 * Why would you use it?**
 * Students can manipulate virtual models on a screen instead of having to rely on a physical model (which the teacher may or may not have in the classroom)
 * PRO: "Refresh the construction" tool replays the user's construction in case you forgot the sequence of clicks that brought you to your object.
 * PRO: Objects created can be printed.
 * PRO: Unfolding polyhedron into nets: Cabri 3D unfolds all polyhedron into nets, which are printable and can be reproduced onto card stock.
 * PRO: Animation tools: Particularly stimulating for students, the tools enable them to simultaneously put several elements of a construction in motion. It is ideal for modeling physical phenomena.
 * PRO: Especially amazing when used in conjunction with the SMART Board.
 * PRO: Has a gallery of pre-designed items ready to go.
 * CON: Students will lack the interaction and physical touch they miss with real objects.
 * CON: Price - $119 for a single user, $449 for ten users, $899 for a site license and this would be a great tool in a computer lab.
 * CON: User-friendliness. I have seen it demo-ed before and looks amazing. Constructing objects yourself is a bit frustrating - I have tried. And I feel it needs intense work in its user-friendliness.
 * Standards: 1 a-d, 2 a-d. 4 a-d, 6 a-d

References
 * Cabri Home Page
 * Cabri 3D v2 Software