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Download full textShaffer, David Williamson – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2005
This paper examines how middle school students developed understanding of transformational geometry through design activities in Escher's World, a computationally rich design experiment explicitly modeled on an architectural design studio. Escher's World was based on the theory of pedagogical praxis (Shaffer, 2004a), which suggests that preserving…
Descriptors: Transformations (Mathematics), Interests, Epistemology, Building Design
