Soap films and GeoGebra in the study of Fermat and Steiner points

DOI10.1080/0020739X.2017.1387944MaRDI QIDQ5015146zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alfinio Flores, Jungeun Park

Publication date 6 December 2021

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739x.2017.1387944

zbMATH Keywords

equilibrium of forcesFermat pointGeoGebraminimal sum distancessoap filmsSteiner pointssurface tension

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Elementary problems in Euclidean geometries (51M04) Plane and solid geometry (educational aspects) (97G40) Technological tools, calculators (aspects of mathematics education) (97U70)

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• GeoGebra

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