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2012 International Conference on Computer, Control, Education and Management Lecture Notes in Information Technology, Vol.27 Research the Application of the “Geometers Sketchpad” Software to Elementary and Secondary Math Teaching Yang Huansong, Shen Chuxian Hangzhou Normal University, China a b hzjyhs@163.com, katescx@ Keywords: Geometers Sketchpad, elementary,mathematics teaching,research. Abstract.The “Geometers Sketchpad” software (GSS) is an excellent teaching software for math in elementary and secondary schools. Taking full advantage of its characteristics of convenient, operative and dynamic, one can achieve a multiplier effects with less efforts, giving rise to the innovation of elementary and secondary math teaching (ESMT). 1. Introduction A mouth, a piece of chalk and a blackboard cannot meet the needs of the current ESMT. The appearance of the GSS has greatly propelled the reform and brought the new spring for ESMT. What we should research into is how to apply the software correctly and efficiently to ESMT. 2. Apply GSS to ESMT 2.1 Stimulate the interests of math learning effectively GSS can not only create context and make students participate in it initiatively, which has the feature of the game that can stimulate students’learning interests. Therefore, it can turn the abstract and boring math concepts into intuitive and visual, so that students will convert the fearful and disgust feeling of math learning into love and willing to learn. A dancing triangle, a scrolling wheel, a beautiful snowflake curve, and a retractable tree of Pythagorean all deeply attract the attention of students. According to the survey, the students have showed great interests in GSS’s features of “accurate, dynamic, intuitive, experimental, efficient and process”. In addition, GSS is conductive to