The Author
I am Guillermo Bautista and I work at a university in the Philippines. The institute where I work is involved in teacher training, curricum development, and educational research. My interest is on the integration of ICT in teaching mathematics. I am also interested in freeware, Web 2.0, and blogging.
I am a supporter of GeoGebra, a great free mathematics software for teaching and learning mathematics. I have been a GeoGebra trainer for 6 years, and I have created more than 50 tutorials about it from beginner to advanced level. I was one of the persons who initiated the establishment of the first GeoGebra institute in the Philippines (and the second in Southeast Asia), the GeoGebra Institute of Metro Manila.
If you want me to conduct a training about GeoGebra you can contact me at gipmanila@gmail.com or mathandmultimedia@gmail.com. Aside from GeoGebra, our institute also conduct trainings on a variety of topics about elementary school and high school mathematics teaching and learning. I can also talk about blogging, particularly using the WordPress and Blogspot (by Google) platforms.
I am alsoa busy blogger. Aside from writing Mathematics and Multimedia, I am the writer of the following blogs:
- Blogineering – a blogging tutorial site
- GeoGebra Applet Central- a blog dedicated to posting GeoGebra applets.
- School of Freebies - a sharing blog of all the free stuff for teaching and learning on the internet.
- Thoughts in Digits - my non-academic blog.
- GeoGebra Institute of Metro Manila – the official wiki of our GeoGebra institute.
The Blog
Mathematics and Multimedia is a blog on K-12 mathematics for teachers, students, and enthusiasts. It is my humble contribution to the body of knowledge on the internet. I am nowhere near expert in anything, but whatever little knowledge I have, I am willing to share in this blog.
The objectives of this blog are the following:
- to provide a conceptual explanation of K-12 mathematics topics
- to suggest alternative ways of teaching and learning school mathematics
- to share useful and free resources on the internet
- to promote the integration of technology in teaching math and other subjects
- to create software and web application tutorials
- to encourage teachers, students, and enthusiast to write on the web
- and to impart ways on promoting sites and blogs on the internet
Guest writers and contributors are welcome to write in my blog.
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nice blog.lots of stuff to read.great stuff…
thanks.mighty help for us teachers/students.
thank you very much ms. pepsi.
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Very nice blog. I like the way you write. Keep it up!
Thank you so much for the compliment.
Hi Guile! Nice Blog!
Mukhang sobrang busy ah
haha… salamat jhen.
Good job, Guillermo! Thank u so much. U have inspired me to spread mathematical ideas (especially geogebra) in my country Kazakhstan.
Thank you Matemkz.
Guillermo,
I have not heard of Geogebra… I should check it out. Is this a math tool – hands on?
I am new at Blogging. Some I find boring but I love math so this is quite interesting. Great job!
Thanks,
Terry
Yes, it is a very good math tool. And its free. Check out the website at
http://www.geogebra.org/cms/
I have created more than 50 tutorials here:
http://mathandmultimedia.com/geogebra/
hello Matemkz,
Where is your country, Kazakhstan? Interested in how you or your students integrate technology in your math class, if so, please explain. I am interested in how teachers or instructors from international countries teach mathematics. Thank you in advance.
Terry
Hi! I badly need help with my special problem. I will be optimizing pipeline networks using Matlab with bit strings as data representation. But with that, I can only use either a uniform or custom mutation and I need gene and transformation mutation. Do I have to program it myself? If yes, do you know how? Also, I want to use a two-phase crossover (single-point then uniform), can I do that with Matlab? Hope you can help me with these. I really need help now.
I forgot to mention that I’ll be using genetic algorithm.
Hi Jamilla. To tell you honestly, I am only starting to learn MatLab, and I am not an applied mathematician, so I am not familiar with the problem that have mentioned.
Aw. Okay. But still, thanks for the response.
Hi, I have already subscribed to your blog and getting the latest posts. We rarely can meet teachers like you. And your ideas about teaching are really precious. I`m also a teacher of math and I have created a blog 2 weeks ago. And its` name is the same as yours(but in my native language). It is hard for me to produce my own ideas about teaching math, because I graduated from the university in 2010. So I don`t have much experience. Do you mind if I `copy your ideas` and translate them in my language in order to explain the beauty of learning math?
I have informed our regional department about the blog I`ve opened and mentioned your as an `inspiror`. They were really impressed.
You have established the first GeoGebra institute in the Philippines, the GeoGebra Institute of Manila. It is really a great job! In our country neither teachers nor students have heard about the GeoGebra, because it is not even translated into Kazakh. And I am thinking of translating it. I have some questions: what do you think: is it possible for me to establish something like an insstitute of GeoGebra here in my country. What do i have to know and do, PLEASE share your experience.
Thanks for the answer,
Regards, Talgat Bainazarov from KZ
Talgat,
Thank you for that inspiring message. I am glad that you have found my blog interesting. Notice that most of the ideas in my blogs are not original — they are basic concepts ‘packaged’ and written in a way which I think would give more ideas to teachers on how to teach the topic and would let students understand the concept better. You have read my articles; I suggest that you reflect on different concepts, and try to write about them. You will become a better teacher and a better writer once you write articles yourself. Regarding the translation, you may translate the articles provided that you link back to the original articles in each post, and as long you will not use it commercially.
Regarding the GeoGebra Institute, there are requirements in establishing one. You will have a better chance if you have experience in conducting training in GeoGebra. You can contact Judit Pacsirta if you want to establish a GeoGebra Institute in your country.
Guillermo
Thank you very much for your advice! I certainly will do what you mentioned and contact Judit Pacsirta.
Best regards, Talgat.
Sorry, I forgot to give you Judit’s email. Here it is: support@geogebra.org
Thanks a lot!
Well done, nice blog from P.I.
Good stuff.
LPC
extranosky: Thanks. What’s P.I. ?
Hi Guillermo,
Just wanted to thank you for the fantastic GeoGebra tutorials. I recently in-serviced my mathematics colleagues on GeoGebra, and made use of your blog. The day went very well! Once again, thanks!
Thank you very much Brett. I am glad that my blog has helped you in your in-service training. I am planning to write more, especially when GeoGebra 4.0 is released.
Hello. I am one of those who attended geogebra seminar last may 5-6. I already created an account at wikispaces.com but I did receive any confirmation from you since then. Did you add me from the list of members? If not what should I do to be included? I would like to know more about the role of multimedia in the classroom and share also what I learn to others.
Hi Ma’am Agnes,
I have already invited you in your email. Please accept the invitation.
Good afternoon. This is with regards to geogebra web link which you told us participant that all of us are already members and after registration we could access to those geogera users here and abroad. but I did not receive any confirmation after I register at wikispaces.com. I don’t have any access to any wedsite concerning geogebra and multimedia advicators, aplet developers and users. What should I do?
Hi Ma’am. I already reinvited you. Kindly check your email.
hey dude you know some other love poems like the Square Root of Three?? please send me an email if you do
As of now, don’t know any. Try Google.
Thanks for the excellent site. You do so much for many people around the world. Be encouraged and keep it up.
Thanks Richard.
Hi Mr Bautista
Thank you for the numerous tutorials that you have posted. It certainly has provided a lot of help in learning the software. I spotted an error in your Histogram listing. For L_1, the first element in the list should be 1, and for L_2, we should not replace cell C2 with 0. There should be only 10 intervals, which means 10 frequency values. Could you kindly explain what does the value of “a” mean? Thank you.
Thank you for pointing out the error. I am a little busy right now to revise the tutorials. I will be revising all the tutorials after the GeoGebra 4.0 is released.
thanks for sharing your knowledge in all these stuff…i’m very much interested in geogebra…
You’re welcome Alma. Please feel free to ask if you have questions.
Hi thanks for your sharing on the guideline on using Latex in writing mathematics blog.
Cheers
You’re wecome Mr. Low.
This is absolute gold! I’m a high school mathematics teacher in South Africa and I appreciate the work you’ve put into this site. I look forward to exploring it more.
Thank you very much Helen. It’s nice to be of help.
Sir,
Good Day!
As I looking for seminar for in Developing Mathematics Teaching with applications of Computer and Software , I find your site/blog as a gateway towards that.
Sir , Im a Math Instructor here in HS/ College School in Paete, Laguna
I would to ask if your institution/you is giving a Seminar outside your school
About Modern Ways in Teaching Mathematics ( W/ application of computer)
If so , sir kindly message me in my email , (johnlouie_marasigan@yahoo.com) all necessary information … (necessary payment)
Thanks , More Power
John Louie S. Marasigan
Mr. Marasigan,
Yes, we are conducting on-site trainings. I already emailed you about the details.
Guillermo
Hi,
I’m a maths malagasy teacher in France and i saw your blog coming from geogebra site.
Great job you do. It’s with people like you that world is rising up.
Your paper about regular tesseletions (why about 3 of them) inspires me a large activity i’m writing for my students.
Tx for all.
Thank you Jules, and you are welcome. Please share my blog to other teachers you know.
Thanks for your tutorials on GeoGebra. I’m interested in GG 3D. But I can’t find any tutorial starting from zero. Could you help me?
Try exploring Youtube.