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Diophantine Steiner triples

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Bojan Hvala
Bojan Hvala*
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Maribor, FNM, Koroška cesta 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia, e-mail:bojan.hvala@uni-mb.si
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Computer programs for dynamic geometry provide a very effective tool for motivating students. It is my experience that a certain effort in preparing an adequate applet and spending some time on a careful presentation can result in a great change of the atmosphere in the classroom. On the other hand, these programs also open new perspectives in geometry exploration and can provoke new interesting research questions related to the already known topics. The possibility of experimenting and the chance of visual examination of the results add new dimensions to research and can also be appealing to non-mathematical audiences.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 95 , Issue 532 , March 2011 , pp. 31 - 39
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2011

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