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Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary
School Classrooms
BookID 139876_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 28/09/2009
Karin Brodie
Teaching Mathematical
Reasoning in Secondary
School Classrooms
With Contributions by
Kurt Coetzee
Lorraine Lauf
Stephen Modau
Nico Molefe
Romulus O’Brien
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BookID 139876_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 28/09/2009 BookID 139876_ChapID FM_Proof# 1 - 28/09/2009
Karin Brodie
School of Education
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg
South Africa
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ISBN 978-0-387-09741-1 e-ISBN 978-0-387-09742-8
DOI -0-387-09742-8
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Foreword
The Road to Reasoning
The teachers in this book share a worthy and courageous mission. They have all set
out to provide children with one of the most important educational experiences it is
possible to have – a form of mathematics teaching that is based upon sense making
and discussion, rather than submission and silence. Mathem