Abstract
Recently, GeoGebra, a mathematics education software, has entered the scene of physics education; however, research on how the software can be used to support teaching and learning physics is limited and scattered. The aim of this article is to present a review of the current literature on how GeoGebra can be used to support physics education in upper-secondary schools. The general conclusion that comes from these studies is that GeoGebra is a user-friendly software that can be operated intuitively by teachers and students. It provides an environment in which the underlying mathematical structures are always at hand, enabling users to see connections between physical phenomena and their formal representations. In addition, teachers with or without programming skills can use the software to design custom-made computer simulations and augment real experiments with virtual objects. Our intention is to help teachers who would like to start using GeoGebra or to broaden the use of the software in physics education.
Highlights
We identified 13 papers for this review, that is, studies on how GeoGebra can be used in upper secondary school physics. (b) We extended our search to Google Scholar using the same time interval and the same combination of keywords
All the papers selected for this review are presented in table 2, where they are classified according to their physics content
We provide an overview of papers that describe how GeoGebra simulations can be designed for use in physics education, how the software can be used to augment recordings of physical experiments, and how students can be engaged in modelling physical phenomena with GeoGebra
Summary
A variety of educational software, including simulations, has been developed in recent decades, and many of them have been continuously refined and supported [1]. One such software, GeoGebra, is an opensource mathematics software which has recently received increasing interest in physics education [2]. While PhET simulations are based on educational research, less work has been done to inform the use of GeoGebra in physics education. GeoGebra is an open-source software, freely available from www.geogebra.org. It works on many operating systems such as Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android and from a web browser. GeoGebra is multilingual (more than 70 languages) in its menus and its commands
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