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Analogy and dynamic geometry system used to introduce three-dimensional geometry
- Source :
- International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. 43:818-830
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2012.
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Abstract
- We present a sequence of classroom activities on Euclidean geometry, both plane and space geometry, used to make three dimensional geometry more catchy and simple. The activity consists of a guided research activity that leads the students to discover unexpected properties of two apparently distant geometrical entities, quadrilaterals and tetrahedra. The activity has been realised by means of an efficacious conceptual tool, the analogy, and an operative one, a dynamic geometry system.
- Subjects :
- Sequence
mathematical laboratory
Quadrilateral
Plane (geometry)
Applied Mathematics
Physics::Physics Education
Geometry
tetrahedra
analogy
dynamic geometry system
Education
Mathematics (miscellaneous)
Simple (abstract algebra)
Euclidean geometry
Tetrahedron
Ordered geometry
Quadrilaterals
Transformation geometry
Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14645211 and 0020739X
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....609c1264d298e97f464718587326e666