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Mary E. Brenner, Sally Herman, Hsiu-Zu Ho, Jules M. Zimmer, Cross-National Comparison of Representational Competence, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 30, No. 5 (Nov., 1999), pp. 541-557
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