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Download full textChin, Erh-Tsung – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this paper the notion of "procept" (in the sense of Gray & Tall, 1994) is extended to advanced mathematics by considering mathematical proof as "formal procept". The statement of a theorem as a symbol may theoretically evoke the proof deduction as a process that may contain sequential procedures and require the synthesis…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Validity, Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics
