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Mamolo, Ami; Bogart, Tristram – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
This article presents a novel re-conceptualisation to a well-known problem--The Ping-Pong Ball Conundrum. We introduce a variant of this super-task by considering it through the lens of "measuring infinity"--a conceptualisation of infinity that extrapolates measuring properties of numbers, rather than cardinal properties. This approach is…
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