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Teaching Transformations of Trigonometric Functions with Technology

By: Neil Bornstein  
Open Access
|Jul 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jime.503 | Journal eISSN: 1365-893X
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 27, 2018
Accepted on: May 21, 2020
Published on: Jul 1, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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