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In the preceding chapters of this book, we have provided considerable evidenceshowing elementary and secondary school students’ success in solving open-endedproblems, over time, under conditions that encouraged critical thinking. In thischapter, we address the question as to whether similar results can be achieved byliberal-arts college students within a well-implemented curriculum that includes astrand of connected problems to be solved over the course of the semester. From aperspective of conceptualizing reasoning in terms of solving open-ended problems,it was of interest to learn whether students in a liberal-arts college mathematicscourse could be successful in providing arguments to support their reasoning and inmaking connections in a problem-solving-based curriculum.
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Glass, B. (2011). Adults Reasoning Combinatorially. In: Maher, C.A., Powell, A.B., Uptegrove, E.B. (eds) Combinatorics and Reasoning. Mathematics Education Library, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0615-6_15
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