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Book Review: A review of the book by Elizabeth de Freitas and Nathalie Sinclair (2014) Mathematics and the body: Material entanglements in the classroom

New York: Cambridge University Press; Learning in Doing series. 284 pages. Hardcover: ISBN 978-1-107-03948-3. List price: $99US

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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

    Frances K. Harper, Heejoo Suh & Beth Herbel-Eisenmann

  2. Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA

    Julie Nurnberger-Haag

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Harper, F.K., Suh, H., Nurnberger-Haag, J. et al. Book Review: A review of the book by Elizabeth de Freitas and Nathalie Sinclair (2014) Mathematics and the body: Material entanglements in the classroom . Educ Stud Math 90, 221–230 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-015-9621-3

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