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  1. School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    James A. Moddleton

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  1. Department of Education, Centre for Mathematics Education, London South Bank University, London, UK

    Stephen Lerman

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Moddleton, J.A. (2020). Motivation in Mathematics Learning. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_117

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