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Reflecting upon reflections

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2009-06-01
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Copyright (c) 2009 H. Zeitler and D. Camp

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Zeitler, H., & Camp, D. (2009). Reflecting upon reflections. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 7(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2009.0165
Abstract
This paper considers many applications of reflections in geometry. It begins with a few motivational problems for the classroom and goes on to consider the formal application to cases involving reflections across one line, two lines and three lines. It wraps up with a summary of results for reflections in higher orders.
All this stuff was treated in German and American schools too – so the paper is a typical example of German-American didactics.
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