Educational Research and Reviews

  • Abbreviation: Educ. Res. Rev.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1990-3839
  • DOI: 10.5897/ERR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2008

Full Length Research Paper

Effects of using dynamic mathematics software on pre-service mathematics teachers’ spatial visualization skills: The case of spatial analytic geometry

Temel Kösa
  • Temel Kösa
  • Karadeniz Technical University, Turkey.
  • Google Scholar


  •  Received: 08 February 2016
  •  Accepted: 10 March 2016
  •  Published: 10 April 2016

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