Constructing a mathematical definition: the case of the tangent

DOI10.1080/0020739X.2018.1516824MaRDI QIDQ5015170zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nava Gilboa, Ivy Kidron, Tommy Dreyfus

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.2018.1516824

zbMATH Keywords

abstraction in contextconstructing a definitiondefinitionneed for a definitiontangent to a graph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Language of mathematics (educational aspects) (97E40) Plane and spherical trigonometry (educational aspects) (97G60)

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