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Introducing 3D modeling in teaching of geometry at technical faculties at University of Zagreb

Present day teaching of constructive geometry at technical faculties in Croatia is to a large degree based on the principles which professor Vilko Niče established at the former Technical Faculty in Zagreb, as far back as the mid-20th century. Due to the high quality of his method of teaching, geometric contents have remained (after undergoing all types of reforms, including the Bologna Process) an important part of fundamental education at Zagreb technical faculties. Niče’s successors have modernized educational materials (exercises and textbooks) maintaining relatively high level of our students’ geometric knowledge, intuitive understanding of space and strictly logical geometric reasoning. Unfortunately, we are lagging behind the EU when it comes to using 3D CAD (except for the Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering at no other technical faculty in Zagreb students use CAD programe in geometric courses) and implementing educational materials in the system of e-learning. In this sense, with the purpose to enhance collaboration among teachers and improve teaching of geometrical courses at the technical faculties in Zagreb, this year we have started the project Introducing 3D modeling in the teaching of geometry at technical faculties (3d geomteh) supported by the Fund for the Development of the University of Zagreb. The Project will cover, among other activities, creating of the basic repository of educational materials related to shared teaching topics and those customized to profiles of individual faculties. Such a repository does not exist within university and polytechnic centers in Croatia. We hope that its formation will result in improving teaching, harmonization of approaches and methods of using e-learning on colleges within Universities, as well as ensure adoption of common standards and recommendations for the creation and use of educational materials for e -learning. Here we will present some parts of the working material which is made as the main repository of the educational material connected to the geometrical subject. We used the programs Rhinoceros 4.0, GeoGebra4 and Jing

geometrical education; 3D modeling; GeoGebra; Jing; Rhinoceros

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