Understanding dynamic behavior: Parent-child relations in dynamic geometry environments

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-119

  Talmon, Varda ^a   Yerushalmy, Michal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

artifact; design considerations; dragging; dynamic behavior; dynamic geometry environment DGE; instrument; order of a geometric construction; tool

Indexed keywords

EID: 8644282059     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EDUC.0000047052.57084.d8     Document Type: Article

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