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Peer reviewedHarel, Guershon; Tall, David – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1991
The terms generalization and abstraction are used with various shades of meaning by mathematicians and mathematics educators. Introduced is the idea of "generic abstraction" that gives the student an operative sense of a mathematical concept and provides a passage point in the process toward formal abstraction. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Generalization, Learning Theories
