Doctoral students’ use of examples in evaluating and proving conjectures
This paper discusses variation in reasoning strategies among expert mathematicians, with a particular focus on the degree to which they use examples to reason about general conjectures. We first discuss literature on the use of examples in understanding and reasoning about abstract mathematics, rela...
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/8575 |
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