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Key Ideas: What are they and how can they help us understand how people view proof?

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This paper examines the views of proof held by university level mathematics students and teachers. A framework is developed for characterizing people's views of proof, based on a distinction between public and private aspects of proof and the key ideas which link these two domains.

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  1. Department of Learning and Teaching, Graduate School of Education, 10 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, U.S.A.

    M. Raman

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Raman, M. Key Ideas: What are they and how can they help us understand how people view proof?. Educational Studies in Mathematics 52, 319–325 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024360204239

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