Key ideas: What are they and how can they help us understand how people view proof?

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-325

  Raman, Manya ^a  

^a Graduate School Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculus; Epistemology; Mathematical ideas; Mathematical thinking; Proof

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544320620     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024360204239     Document Type: Review

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