Prospective high school mathematics teachers’ uses of diagrams and geometric transformations while reasoning about geometric proof tasks
- Award ID(s):
- 1712280
- PAR ID:
- 10221337
- Editor(s):
- Sacristán, A.I.
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Mathematics Education Across Cultures: Proceedings of the 42nd Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Mexico. Cinvestav / AMIUTEM / PME-NA
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 676 to 680
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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