Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9649462 | The Journal of Mathematical Behavior | 2005 | 10 Pages |
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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Authors
Keith Weber,