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Marjorie Henningsen, Mary Kay Stein, Mathematical Tasks and Student Cognition: Classroom-Based Factors That Support and Inhibit High-Level Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Nov., 1997), pp. 524-549
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