August 2005, Vol. 99, Issue 1
Linking Theory and Practice in Teaching Geometry
Randall Groth
How the author used the van Hiele teaching phases to design and implement. The author used the hierarchy of five different levels of thinking during summer school instruction; holistic, analytic, abstract, deductive, and rigorous. The students successfully moved towards understanding abstractions in quadrilaterals and triangles.
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