A few remarks regarding the teaching of geometry, through a theoretical analysis of the geometrical figure

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2087-2095

  Charalambos, Lemonidis ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Geometrical figure; Geometry; Homothetic figure; Operative apprehention; Prototype examples; Prototype phenomenom; The position of perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042764585     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-546X(97)00294-0     Document Type: Article

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