March 2019, Vol. 50, Issue 2
Linguistic Conventions of Mathematical Proof Writing at the Undergraduate Level: Mathematicians’ and Students’ Perspectives
Kristen Lew and Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos
This study examined the genre of undergraduate mathematical proof writing by asking mathematicians and undergraduate students to read 7 partial proofs and identify and discuss uses of mathematical language that were out of the ordinary with respect to what they considered conventional mathematical proof writing.
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