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Download full textWeber, Keith – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework for categorizing and describing the different types of processes that undergraduates use to construct proofs. Based on 176 observations of undergraduates constructing proofs collected over several studies, I describe three qualitatively different ways that undergraduates use to construct proofs. In…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Skills, College Mathematics
