Physical and Virtual Worlds in Teaching Mathematics: Possibilities for an Effective Cooperation?
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چکیده
Through a case study of a series of Galton Board activities, we try to offer some reflections about the possibility of integrating in the teaching model different tools, starting from completely physical activities and arriving through gradual steps of abstraction to the “virtualization” of the tools and to the corresponding abstraction of underlying mathematical concepts.
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