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==== The Pythagorean Theorem and Mathematical Education ====
The theorem bearing Pythagoras's
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ary conventional symbols — above all language and mathematical notation — which are powerful precisely because t... c mode — the emphasis on scientific, logical, and mathematical reasoning that had dominated curriculum reform si
me the hallmark of the Geneva approach — with new mathematical methods of hierarchical analysis of children's be... qually at home in discussions of formal logic and mathematical epistemology, spatial reasoning, functional relat