Uncontrollable mental imagery: Graphical connections between a function and its derivative

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 301-317

  Aspinwall, Leslie ^a   Shaw, Kenneth L ^a   Presmeg, Norma C ^a  

^a Department of Mathematics and Statistics ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0038197837     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1002976729261     Document Type: Article

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