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Taken-as-shared: a review of common assumptions about mathematical tasks in teacher education

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Notes

  1. Throughout, task means mathematics-related task.

  2. The entire selection process of the final papers for this special issue was carried out jointly by the three guest editors, namely, by the two of us together with Orit Zaslavsky.

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Watson, A., Mason, J. Taken-as-shared: a review of common assumptions about mathematical tasks in teacher education. J Math Teacher Educ 10, 205–215 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10857-007-9059-3

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