Providing a Foundation for Deductive Reasoning: Students' Interpretations When Using Dynamic Geometry Software and Their Evolving Mathematical Explanations.

Jones, Keith

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ERIC Number: EJ639866

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Publication Date: 2000

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Providing a Foundation for Deductive Reasoning: Students' Interpretations When Using Dynamic Geometry Software and Their Evolving Mathematical Explanations.

Jones, Keith

Educational Studies in Mathematics, v44 n1-2 p55-85 2000

Reports data from a longitudinal study of 12-year-old students' interpretations of geometrical objects and relationships when using dynamic geometry software. Focuses on the progressive mathematization of the students' sense of the software, examining their interpretations, and using the explanations that students give to the geometrical properties of various quadrilaterals that they construct as one indicator of this. (Author/MM)

Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Concept Formation, Deduction, Geometry, Mathematics Education, Secondary Education, Sociocultural Patterns

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Proof in Dynamic Geometry Environments.