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Exploring the Sketch Metaphor for Presenting Mathematics Using Boxer

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Computers and Exploratory Learning

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The difference between sketches and paintings provides a metaphor for thinking about the structure of exposition in a computational medium. Drawing also upon Nevile’s (unpublished) use of the term literature to indicate a particular stance in which ideas that have proved fruitful to someone at some time are made available to others in a dynamic computational medium, I explore the development of an example of such literature concerning modular arithmetic, presented in Boxer.

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  1. Sunrise Research Laboratory, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

    John Mason

  2. Centre for Mathematics Education, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

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  1. Graduate School of Education, University of California at Berkeley, 4533 Tolman Hall, 94720-1670, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Andrea A. diSessa

  2. Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing, University of London, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL, London, UK

    Celia Hoyles  & Richard Noss  & 

  3. Crown College, University of California at Santa Cruz, 95064, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Laurie D. Edwards

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Mason, J. (1995). Exploring the Sketch Metaphor for Presenting Mathematics Using Boxer. In: diSessa, A.A., Hoyles, C., Noss, R., Edwards, L.D. (eds) Computers and Exploratory Learning. NATO ASI Series, vol 146. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57799-4_21

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