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This paper presents an investigation into the development of functional thinking. Search strategies used for solving a problem reveal different stages towards the discovery of the monotonic property, which correspond to stages of proportional reasoning found by Piaget. The dependence between stage and age is confirmed by the results.
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Vollrath, HJ. Search strategies as indicators of functional thinking. Educ Stud Math 17, 387–400 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311326
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