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Download full textMonaghan, John; Ozmantar, Mehmet Fatih – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
What is involved in consolidating a new mathematical abstraction? This paper examines the work of one student who was working on a task designed to consolidate two recently constructed absolute function abstractions. The study adopts an activity theoretic model of abstraction in context. Selected protocol data are presented. The initial state of…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Mathematics Skills, Task Analysis, Protocol Analysis
