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Elementary aged children need developmentally appropriate activities to engage them in argumentative writing in mathematics (math writing).
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Kosko, K.W. (2016). Going beyond Numbers to Complicate the Given Information. In: Dowdy, J.K., Gao, Y. (eds) Pump It Up. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-612-5_20
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