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ERIC Number: EJ111519
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1974
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First Proofs
Ehrlich, Amos
Mathematics Teacher, 67, 8, 689-692, Dec 74
After describing desirable characteristics of a student's first encounter with proof, and listing skills prerequisite for the proposed lesson (knowledge of some operational systems), the author describes in detail an introductory session in which students prove consequences of commutativity and associativity for a system supposedly encountered on another planet. (SD)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Deduction, Elementary School Mathematics, Instruction, Modern Mathematics, Problem Solving, Secondary School Mathematics, Symbolic Learning
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Identifiers: Proof (Mathematics); Properties (Mathematics)