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Peer reviewedDuval, Raymond – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1991
Beginning geometry students misunderstand the requirements of formal proof because of confusion between deductive reasoning and argumentation. Presented is a cognitive analysis of deductive organization versus argumentative organization of reasoning and the applications of this analysis to learning. Implications of a study analyzing students'…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Deduction, French
