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XaoS 4.0 and Beyond: Fractals in Mathematics Education

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We report on recent improvements on the free fractal software tool XaoS, including the latest features added during the Google Summer of Code 2020 project.

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Acknowledgements

Second author was partially supported by the grant MTM2017-88796-P from the Spanish MINECO and the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund). We are grateful to the GNU Project and Google by supporting our work during the GSoC 2020 project.

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  1. Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Sector 16 C, Dwarka, Delhi, 110078, India

    Anurag Aggarwal & J. B. Langston

  2. The Private University College of Education of the Diocese of Linz, Salesianumweg 3, 4020 Linz, Linz, Austria

    Zoltán Kovács

  3. Dallas, TX, USA

    J. B. Langston

  4. Fractal Foundation, 2917 Campus Blvd NE, 87106 Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

    Jonathan Wolfe

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Aggarwal, A., Kovács, Z., Langston, J.B. et al. XaoS 4.0 and Beyond: Fractals in Mathematics Education. Math.Comput.Sci. 15, 775–788 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11786-021-00505-4

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