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    Lieven Verschaffel & Joke Torbeyns

  2. Department of Education, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Peter Bryant

  3. GROUP T—Leuven Education College, Leuven, Belgium

    Joke Torbeyns

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Verschaffel, L., Bryant, P. & Torbeyns, J. Introduction. Educ Stud Math 79, 327–334 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-012-9381-2

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