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Does our school curriculum teach students how to do mathematics?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Roger Porkess
Roger Porkess*
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Centre for Teaching Mathematics, University of Plymouth PL4 8AA
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 83 , Issue 496 , March 1999 , pp. 82 - 86
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1999

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