Reflecting From the Border Between Mathematics Education Research and Cognitive Psychology

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Percival G. Matthews University of Wisconsin–Madison

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I acknowledge, with thanks, comments on an earlier version by Patricio Herbst, Erin Lichtenstein, Sandra Crespo, and Karl Kosko.

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