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Pinto, Alon; Cooper, Jason – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Professors in proof-based mathematics courses often intend that the feedback they provide on students' flawed proofs will promote proof comprehension. In this theoretical article, we investigate how such feedback can be formulated. Drawing on Lakatos's process of proof and refutation, we propose the notion of "heuristic refutation…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Feedback (Response), Affordances, Mathematical Logic