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The aim of this chapter is to highlight the international trends in GeoGebra usage since its emergence as a powerful, open-source mathematics software in 2002. GeoGebra Institutes are being formed around the globe under the auspices of the International GeoGebra Institute (IGI), and the GeoGebra Wiki and User Forum are being well used by an increasing number of academics and enthusiasts. Within this chapter, comments made by a variety of these international users will be highlighted to address the questions of democratic access and software sustainability vis-à-vis the open source context, and to offer insight into the meaningful and expanding role that the software now plays in many regions of the world.
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Jarvis, D., Hohenwarter, M., Lavicza, Z. (2011). Geogebra, Democratic Access, and Sustainability. In: Bu, L., Schoen, R. (eds) Model-Centered Learning. Modeling and Simulations for Learning and Instruction, vol 6. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-618-2_17
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