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Enacting genericity: Coming to see the general in the particular while proving with manipulatives, diagrams, and symbols
2026-01-13
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>A pervasive form of mathematical reasoning involves using a specific instance to draw conclusions about a general class. In mathematics education, researchers have conceptualized this practice as reasoning with “generic examples” and proposed it as a scaffold supporting students’ transition from informal exploration to the construction of proofs. Whereas existing research has largely in...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 64293998-06b0-5eb7-ac58-8f99ac412f31
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8409836/v1
