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Download full textTall, David – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2008
This paper focuses on the changes in thinking involved in the transition from school mathematics to formal proof in pure mathematics at university. School mathematics is seen as a combination of visual representations, including geometry and graphs, together with symbolic calculations and manipulations. Pure mathematics in university shifts…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, College Mathematics
