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Direct linkde Villiers, Michael – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2004
This paper gives a broad descriptive account of some activities that the author has designed using Sketchpad to develop teachers' understanding of other functions of proof than just the traditional function of 'verification'. These other functions of proof illustrated here are those of explanation, discovery and systematization (in the context of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Learning Theories, Geometry
