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  1. Department of Mathematics Science and Technology Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Tommy Dreyfus

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

    Stephen Lerman

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  1. Laboratoire de Didactique André Revuz (EA4434), Université Paris-Diderot, Paris, France

    Michéle Artigue

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Dreyfus, T. (2020). Abstraction in Mathematics Education. In: Lerman, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15789-0_2

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