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The ability to solve problems is a major component of mathematical comprehension. In education, “mathematical thinking” is defined as a student’s ability to solve mathematical problems: first the most basic ones, and then progressing through more complex ones, culminating with non-standard problems that require higher thinking skills (Avital & Shettleworth, 1968; Barton, 1984).
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Sinitsky, I., Ilany, BS. (2016). Introducing Change for the Sake of Invariance. In: Change and Invariance. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-699-6_4
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