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Revealing the Faces of Abstraction

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  1. Education Development Center, Newton, MA, US

    Pamela Frorer  & Michelle Manes

  2. Department of Education in Science and Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

    Orit Hazzan

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Frorer , P., Manes , M. & Hazzan , O. Revealing the Faces of Abstraction. International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning 2, 217–228 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009756617451

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