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How to Use CAS (Maple) to Help Students Learn Number Theory

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The aim of this work is to show how CAS (Maple) can widen the opportunity for an effective mathematical education. We focus our attention on the teaching Number Theory as a part of the Discrete Mathematics course.

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Durcheva, M. How to Use CAS (Maple) to Help Students Learn Number Theory. Math.Comput.Sci. 13, 69–78 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11786-018-0363-3

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