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Download full textGutierrez, Angel; Pegg, John; Lawrie, Christine – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
In this paper we report on a research aimed to identify and characterize secondary school students' reasoning and proof abilities when working with 3-dimensional geometric solids. We analyze students' answers to two problems asking them to prove certain properties of prisms. As results of this analysis, we get, on the one side, a characterization…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
