When intuition beats logic: Prospective teachers' awareness of their same sides - Same angles solutions

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 255-279

  Tsamir, Pessia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Angles; Intuitve rule; Polygons; Prospective teacher; Same A same B; Sides; SMK

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947712972     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-006-9053-1     Document Type: Article

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