In the hands of marketers and spin-doctors, numbers and statistics are tools of persuasion. Numbers can be manipulated, massaged, misquoted, and misrepresented to achieve a desired end result. That ...
An artificial-intelligence (AI) tool can rigorously prove whether geometric facts — statements about two-dimensional shapes such as triangles or polygons — are true, just as well as competitors in the ...
Cognition and Instruction, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1994), pp. 61-93 (33 pages) The problem-solving performance of groups of high-achieving (HA) and low-achieving (LA) Year 11 students was compared during ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although mathematical practice has traditionally valued two distinct kinds of mathematical work— referred to by Gowers (2000) as theory ...