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Three teaching designs are offered. They were developed for 12 to 16 year old pupils taking into account their personal differences in terms of gender (in “Making Up the Cube”), culture (in “Mecca”), knowledge, and use of calculators in “The integrating calculator.” The designs concern the representation of three-dimensional objects in the plane, directions and great circles on the sphere, and exploration of the integrating calculator.
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Van Den Brink, J. Different aspects in designing mathematics education: Three examples from the Freudenthal Institute. Educ Stud Math 24, 35–64 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01273294
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