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Traditionally, and philosophically, mathematics has been thought of as a science of ideal objects – numbers, quantities, and shapes – that are precisely defined and thus amenable to logically precise relations known as theorems. In practice, mathematics presents a more rough-and-ready image: it is about solving problems in the real world that involve measured quantities that are never perfectly precise. (Steen, 2003, p. 59)
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van der Kooij, H., Goddijn, A. (2011). Algebra in Science and Engineering. In: Drijvers, P. (eds) Secondary Algebra Education. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-334-1_9
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