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Symbol Sense: Informal Sense-Making in Formal Mathematics.
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Arcavi, Abraham – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1994
Attempts to describe a notion parallel to number sense, called symbol sense, incorporating the following components: making friends with symbols, reading through symbols, engineering symbolic expressions, equivalent expressions for non-equivalent meanings, choice of symbols, flexible manipulation skills, symbols in retrospect, and symbols in…
Descriptors: Algebra, Algorithms, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education