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Part of the book series: New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education ((NDMS,volume 1))

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The article selected for analysis presents an interesting description of how students work in the context of a virtual world, where they design phenomena that they subsequently investigate by analyzing graphical representations. I pick it out for analysis because of my friendly working relations with the authors, which makes it possible to do such an analysis without generating animosity.

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Roth, WM. (2013). Hunting the elusive tiger. In: On Meaning and Mental Representation. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education, vol 1. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-251-8_4

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