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Just give me a computer and i will move the earth: Programming as a catalyst of a cultural revolution in the mathematics classroom

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  1. University of Haifa, Israel

    Anna Sfard & Uri Leron

  2. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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Sfard, A., Leron, U. Just give me a computer and i will move the earth: Programming as a catalyst of a cultural revolution in the mathematics classroom. Int J Comput Math Learning 1, 189–195 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00571078

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