"If you can turn a rectangle into a square, you can turn a square into a rectangle ..." Young students experience the dragging tool

International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 271-299

  Erez, Michal Maymon ^a   Yerushalmy, Michal ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Critical attributes; Dragging; Dynamic geometry environment; Hierarchical relations; Mental models

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; FORMAL LOGIC; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

CRITICAL ATTRIBUTES; DRAGGING; DYNAMIC GEOMETRY ENVIRONMENT; HIERARCHICAL RELATIONS; MENTAL MODELS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846593296     PISSN: 13823892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10758-006-9106-7     Document Type: Article

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