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Learning Trajectory

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Iteration has emerged as one of more important methodological processes within the environment of evidence-based Common Core standards. Its importance increases together with the goal to formulate effective student learning trajectories, that is, those theoretical pathways of learning mathematical concepts that come closest to actual student learning.

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    Bronislaw Czarnocha

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Czarnocha, B. (2016). Learning Trajectory. In: Czarnocha, B., Baker, W., Dias, O., Prabhu, V. (eds) The Creative Enterprise of Mathematics Teaching Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-549-4_30

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