Strategies to foster students' competencies in constructing multi-steps geometric proofs: Teaching experiments in Taiwan and Germany

ZDM - International Journal on Mathematics Education

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 443-453

  Heinze, Aiso ^a   Cheng, Ying Hao ^b   Ufer, Stefan ^c   Lin, Fou Lai ^d   Reiss, Kristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 84861870119     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-008-0092-1     Document Type: Article

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