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Thinking Like a Tree (and Other Forms of Ecological Thinking)

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Resnick, M. Thinking Like a Tree (and Other Forms of Ecological Thinking). International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning 8, 43–62 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025632719774

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