Robust and Soft Constructions (Healy 2000)
- Researchers intended to encourage students to build robust constructions, i.e. constructions preserved by dragging
- Students preferred to investigate in soft constructions, “in which one of the chosen properties is purposely constructed by eye, allowing the locus of permissible figures to be built up in an empirical manner under the control of the student.”
Healy,L. (2000). Identifying and explaining geometrical relationship: interactions
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