Designing Learning Environments for Developing Understanding of Geometry and Space

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Contents: Preface. Part I: Why Teach Geometry? E.P. Goldenberg, A.A. Cuoco, J. Mark, A Role for Geometry in General Education. K. Gravemeijer, From a Different Perspective: Building on Students' Informal Knowledge. D. Chazan, M. Yerushalmy, Charting a Course for Secondary Geometry. R.L. Devaney, Chaos in the Classroom. Part II: Studies of Conceptual Development. J. Pegg, G. Davey, Interpreting Student Understanding in Geometry: A Synthesis of Two Models. R. Lehrer, M. Jenkins, H. Osana, Longitudinal Study of Children's Reasoning About Space and Geometry. R. Lehrer, C. Jacobson, G. Thoyre, V. Kemeny, D. Danneker, J. Horvath, S. Gance, M. Koehler, Developing Understanding of Space and Geometry in the Primary Grades. D.H. Clements, M.T. Battista, J. Sarama, Development of Geometric and Measurement Ideas. M.T. Battista, D.H. Clements, Students' Understanding of Three-Dimensional Cube Arrays: Findings From a Research and Curriculum Development Project. J.A. Middleton, R. Corbett, Sixth Grade Students' Conceptions of Stability in Engineering Contexts. K. Raghavan, M.L. Sartoris, R. Glaser, Interconnecting Science and Mathematics Concepts: Area and Volume. D. Dennis, J. Confrey, Geometric Curve-Drawing Devices as an Alternative Approach to Analytic Geometry: An Analysis of the Methods, Voice, and Epistemology of a High School Senior. K.R. Koedinger, Conjecturing and Argumentation in High School Geometry Students. Part III: Defining a New Semantics of Space: Computers, Software, and the Electronic World. E.P. Goldenberg, A.A. Cuoco, What Is Dynamic Geometry? M. de Villiers, An Alternative Approach to Proof in Dynamic Geometry. J. Olive, Opportunities to Explore and Integrate Mathematics With the Geometer's Sketchpad. D.L. Watt, Mapping the Classroom Using CAD Program: Geometry as Applied Mathematics. L. Zech, N.J. Vye, J.D. Bransford, S.R. Goldman, B.J. Barron, D.L. Schwartz, R. Kisst-Hackett, C. Mayfield-Stewart, The Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt, An Introduction to Geometry Through Anchored Instruction. K.A. Renninger, S.A. Weimar, E.A. Klotz, Teachers and Students Investigating and Communicating About Geometry: The Math Forum.

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