Tanguay, Denis; Geeraerts, Loïc; Saboya Mandico, Mireille et Venant, Fabienne
(2013).
« An Activity Entailing Exactness and Approximation of Angle Measurement in a DGS », dans roceedings of the Eight Congress of European Research in Mathematics (Cerme8). (CERME8, Antalaya, 2013), sous la dir. de Haser, Çiğdem; Ubuz, Behiye et Mariotti, Maria Alessandra.
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Résumé
We describe here an activity seeking a coordination between geometry and arithmetic. It
starts from a geometric manipulation with GeoGebra – the iterate rotation of an isosceles
triangle forming a regular polygon – and gradually leads students to consider the divisors
of 360 and to reflect upon approximations and exact representations of rational numbers
related to angle measurements. Through the issue of measurement in geometry, the activity
takes place in the ‘geometer-physicist’ paradigm proposed by Tanguay & Geeraerts (2012)
and instilled by Jahnke (2007). We propose an a priori analysis of the activity, set within the
theoretical frame of Kuzniak (2010, 2013) on Espace de Travail Mathématique (ETM).