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A concrete approach to geometry is barely accepted in primary school but is not usually used and proposed in higher school levels. I present some examples to show how the activity of touching, building, manipulating mathematical objects can stimulate thoughts, observations and questions that are not at all elementary, at every level.
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Ughi, E. (2020). A Concrete Approach to Geometry. In: Magnaghi-Delfino, P., Mele, G., Norando, T. (eds) Faces of Geometry. From Agnesi to Mirzakhani. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 88. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29796-1_18
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