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Brigstocke, S. (2020). Down Syndrome, Special Needs, and Mathematics Learning. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_169
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