Being sloppy about slope: The effect of changing the scale

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 119-140

  Zaslavsky, Orit ^a   Sela, Hagit ^a   Leron, Uri ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cartesian coordinate system; Cognitive conflict; Computers; Function; Graph; Graphic software; Representation; Scale; Slope

Indexed keywords

EID: 10044266880     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016093305002     Document Type: Article

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