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Mathematics education

the view that mathematical ideas are first grasped as processes and only later reified into objects that can themselves be operated on.

In mathematics education, process-object duality refers to the view that mathematical ideas are first grasped as processes and only later reified into objects that can themselves be operated on. This meaning comes from Sfard (1991) in Educational Studies in Mathematics.[1]

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Sfard, A. (1991). On the dual nature of mathematical conceptions: Reflections on processes and objects as different sides of the same coin. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 22(1), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00302715

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