![]() ![]() There are hundreds of different applications for the program. There is a freehand tool, but drawing shapes is as simple as clicking where the points and midsections of the shape should be. There are dozens of different graph types supported by the program, complete with customizable coordinates and axes. Then, you can measure the angles and midpoints of the shapes to solve or create equations. The Geometer's Sketchpad offers five different tools to create geometric shapes to help you visualize math problems. You can only access the drawing features of the program and not the measurement features if you don't pay, as well. This price supports up to four computers. The program costs $69.95 to unlock anything more than a 20-minute session that won't save or print your work. The price is probably too restrictive for home use, but could make it a great tool for classroom use. The Geometer's Sketchpad looks to give you a platform to create mathematical shapes and figures, but you'll have to pay up to use it. They also cover the power bricks which WILL go bad because right at the neck of the brick on the cable to the computer is a weak point Apple has known about for AGES but never changes.A digital chalkboard would be an awesome tool for any math classroom. ![]() We've had batteries fail, tons of logic boards fail, some hard drives, random cables that are in the computer, track pads, keyboards. I feel like I make almost weekly trips to the Apple Store for repairs. NEVER with school related material (funny right?)Ībsolutely positively buy AppleCare. There are of course people who have filled it up but like it's been stated it's all with iPhoto and iTunes libraries. ![]() Almost everybody has the same machine from students to faculty to staff. ![]() Our school is all 1-to-1 with 13" MacBook Airs 4gb of RAM and 128gb hard drives. Spent the rest of the summer slowly rolling out iMacs to different offices and running mandatory PD classes for staff new to the Mac OS platform. We configured ~ 80 lab iMacs in less than a week and half. Faculty were thrilled because we originally announced they would be without a computer for over a month. We transitioned 120 faculty/staff to new MBAirs in less than 2 weeks at the start of the summer. I can't go into detail about the financial data but can say our CFO spent a great deal of time working with Apple on the leasing agreement. We were up against a wall with AppleCare expiring on all of our old hardware. With a relatively small team of 5 (4 full time + 1 intern), we provided support for roughly 300 users over the summer. Finally, peace of mind: All of our Cinema Displays have AppleCare. The Cinema Display is very easy to use: many folks in our organization were familiar with Dell docking stations/displays. First, the Cinema display is the only "Apple certified" monitor on the market. My team chose the Cinema Display for a number of reasons. For additional storage needs we fall back on unlimited Google Drive storage for free. As a school, we're heavily invested in GAFE. iTunes Match is a fantastic solution for anyone with a large music library and limited internal storage. Faculty with more than 25GB of data had enormous media libraries with downloaded movie and TV shows. We based the 128GB SSD decision on the fact that the majority of our faculty had less than 25GB of school related files. My team spent a great deal of time evaluating faculty storage *wants* versus *needs* last spring. ![]()
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