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Suppose we have a square that measures one centimeter on its side, and this square contains a set of 500,000 given points. We wish to divide this set into various subsets. Interestingly, if the number of points is smaller, most students don’t have any trouble with these problems. It is when the number of points becomes unmanageably large that difficulties in seeing what to do emerge.
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Allen, G.D. (2017). Big, But Not Really Big Numbers. In: Allen, G.D., Ross, A. (eds) Pedagogy and Content in Middle and High School Mathematics. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-137-7_24
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