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de Villiers, Michael – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
It's often useful extending students beyond the limiting geometry of triangles and quadrilaterals to regularly consider generalizations of results for triangles and quadrilaterals to higher order polygons. A brief heuristic description is given here of the author applying this strategy, and which led to an interesting result related to the…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Generalization
de Villiers, Michael – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
This short note presents and discusses an interesting area partition result related to a parallelogram. It is, then, shown how proving the result, and understanding why the result is true based on the principle of conservation of the area of triangles with the same base and between the same parallel lines, leads to further generalizations to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Validity, Secondary School Mathematics
de Villiers, Michael – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
This paper discusses an interesting, classic problem that provides a nice classroom investigation for dynamic geometry, and which can easily be explained (proved) with transformation geometry. The deductive explanation (proof) provides insight into why it is true, leading to an immediate generalization, thus illustrating the discovery function of…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematical Logic, Validity, Transformations (Mathematics)