Revista Latinoamericana de Investigación
en Matemática Educativa
ISSN: 1665-2436
[email protected]
Comité Latinoamericano de Matemática
Educativa
Organismo Internacional
Michael-Chrysanthou, Paraskevi; Gagatsis, Athanasios
Ambiguity in the way of looking at geometrical figures
Revista Latinoamericana de Investigación en Matemática Educativa, vol. 17, núm. 4,
diciembre, 2014, pp. 165-179
Comité Latinoamericano de Matemática Educativa
Distrito Federal, Organismo Internacional
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