Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9649462 The Journal of Mathematical Behavior 2005 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
In university mathematics courses, the activity of proof construction can be viewed as a problem-solving task in which the prover is asked to form a logical justification demonstrating that a given statement must be true. The purposes of this paper are to describe some of the different types of reasoning and problem-solving processes used by undergraduates to construct proofs in their university mathematics courses, and to consider the relationship between the reasoning that students use when constructing a proof and what they have the opportunity to learn from their proving experience.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Applied Mathematics
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