The analogy is designed to help
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students in develop judgement about a good choice for the source from a number
of sources, which are the best analogy with the given task. In geometry in special,
the analogies are tools to aid visualization rather than deep analogues.
Now going back to recall the Van Hiele geometry levels and Blooms taxonomy
we can see that the concepts of generalization and analogy involved in this
thesis are places inside of the last levels. In Van Hiele levels we can
nd that at
the 3rd level students should prove theorems deductively and establish interrelationship
among theorems. At this point students are using generalization of the
existing knowledge and also the
rst analogies that make the discovered theorems
signi
cant. At the
nal level 4th students establish theorems in di¤erent system
of postulates and analyze/compare these systems. The analyses and comparison
between systems use the complex reasoning of analogy.
If we do references at the Blooms taxonomy we can see that for a students
good comprehension the analogy is one of the top reasoning. The maps and the
bridges between the existing knowledge and the new knowledge are so familiar and
successful that the results can occur immediately. The applications involve also a
lot of analogy, but they can be part of generalization too. Moreover, the analysis
is on the higher level of cognition where students must take apart the concept
in question and put it back into the context and the analogy and generalization
make the stu¤ easier. The last two classi
cations claim a sophisticated level of
mathematics where these two reasonings, analogy and generalization, touch the
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peak of applicability.