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The going approach to the role of the social is to mark anything that happens when a group of students do something together (alone or with the teacher) as ‘social construction’. Often, as in the widely written-about ‘socio-mathematical norms’, groups are said to ‘negotiate’ norms prior to acting according to them. In this ap-proach, however, the social is taken in a trivial sense.
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Roth, WM. (2017). The Mathematics of Mathematics. In: The Mathematics of Mathematics. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-926-3_3
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