Prototypes: Brakes or levers in learning the function concept? The role of computer tools

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 362-389

  Schwarz, Baruch B ^a   Hershkowitz, Rina ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computers; Conceptual knowledge; Functions; Modeling; Representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644450809     PISSN: 00218251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/749706     Document Type: Article

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