The development of reasoning skills during compulsory 16 to 18 mathematics education

The belief that studying mathematics improves reasoning skills, known as the Theory of Formal Discipline (TFD), has been held since the time of Plato. Research evidence supports this idea, at least in the context of students who had chosen to study post-compulsory mathematics. Here we examined the d...

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Main Authors: Nina Attridge, Maria Doritou, Matthew Inglis
Format: Default Article
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19848
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