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This chapter concludes the collection of reports that expanded on the papers presented at ICME 13, in the context of the Topic Study Group on the teaching and learning of secondary geometry. In an effort to articulate a vision for where the field could go in the near future, the editors take this opportunity to revisit issues of methodologies for data collection and data analysis. They propose how new technologies could be integrated into research and practice in secondary geometry and ask questions that the field might expect to address with the aid of such technologies.
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The mesospace is the space of objects of size commensurate with that of the human body (Berthelot & Salin, 1998). Likewise, Berthelot and Salin (1998) also talk of the macrospace and the microspace. The former can be defined as the space of objects whose size is one or more orders of magnitude larger than the human body, and the latter as the space of objects whose size can be handled by the human hands (see Laborde, 2000).
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Herbst, P., Cheah, U.H., Jones, K., Richard, P.R. (2018). Conclusion: Prospects for Developments and Research in Secondary Geometry Education. In: Herbst, P., Cheah, U., Richard, P., Jones, K. (eds) International Perspectives on the Teaching and Learning of Geometry in Secondary Schools. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77476-3_21
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