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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS GENERATING EXAMPLES IN REAL ANALYSIS: WHERE IS THE DEFINITION? 1

This paper is part of a wider study, whose purpose is to analyze how university students behave when asked to generate examples in Real Analysis. To this aim, we collected and analyzed written protocols accompanied by individual interviews. In this paper, we focus on the interplay of concept image and concept definition, which is an element revealing interesting aspects of students’ way of reasoning.

Francesca Morselli | Samuele Antonini | Fulvia Furinghetti | Elena Tosetto

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