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Direct linkOsterholm, Magnus – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
This study compares reading comprehension of three different texts: two mathematical texts and one historical text. The two mathematical texts both present basic concepts of group theory, but one does it using mathematical symbols and the other only uses natural language. A total of 95 upper secondary and university students read one of the…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Prior Learning, Mathematics, Natural Language Processing
