Interactive versus observational: Learning of spatial visualization of geometric transformat

Australian Educational Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-10

  Smith, Glenn Gordon ^a   Middleton, James A ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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