Navigating the Mathomat V7 geometry template

Before starting work on the drawing activities for Mathomat in this student book take the time to read through this overview of the template. Make sure you have your Mathomat V7 template in front of you, along with something to draw in and a sharp pencil or pen. The central protractor is often what people look at firstly, this is a large protractor with a simplified design to make angle measure as accurate as possible. The features of this protractor are on the upper right of page 5. The many geometric shapes in Mathomat are explained in this guide. These shapes are arranged so that the straight sided ones (polygons) flow in a clockwise direction around the protractor in herirarchical order. There are senior school graphing curves, and a rich and important series of different number lines on each of the ruler edges around the outside of the template. There are a series of important drawing features in Mathomat V7, including Professor Tisdell's geometry tool (shape 13), the tangram tool (shape 1), the arc builder tool on the upper right and the regular polygons expansion tool on the upper left. These features and functions in Mathomat will become familiar with you as work through the activities in the student manual.