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An unsuspecting reader might believe that it would not be asking too much to describe the goals of a certain piece of mathematical material like “Grains on the Chessboard” or even of the whole of mathematics education as it is pursued by Wiskobas. It can be presumed that those who develop any such kind of material will proceed in an orderly fashion and have definite aims in mind: i.e., first one would determine the objectives and then construct the means to achieve them.

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Treffers, A. (1987). One-Dimensional Goal Description. In: Three Dimensions. Mathematics Education Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3707-9_3

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