The role of contradiction and uncertainty in promoting the need to prove in dynamic geometry environments

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 44, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 127-150

  Hadas, Nurit ^a,b   Hershkowitz, Rina ^a,b   Schwarz, Baruch B ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Deduction; Design processes; Explanations' categories; Proving in geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544296595     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1012781005718     Document Type: Article

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